SOURCE: Schwerner, Armand, and Edward Foster. “An Interview with Armand Schwerner.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 19 (winter 1998-1999): 30-44.

In the following interview, Schwerner comments on the uses and philosophies of language in creative expression and discusses both his original poetry and his approach to translating the works of others.

This interview was conducted in the winter of 1998 in Armand Schwerner's apartment on Staten Island and edited the following spring.

[Foster]: You mentioned yesterday the piece that you read by Ted Berrigan …

[Schwerner]: Oh, that was in the Moxley and Evans pamphlet series. You've seen what they're doing?

The Impercipient? Yes.

I try to keep up with what's happening with people in younger generations, so … I guess you've read this one.

Yes, I have, but I don't remember that he quoted Ted Berrigan.

Here it is. It's from Steve Evans' essay on “The Dynamics of...