SOURCE: An interview in West Coast Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall, 1987, pp. 42–64.

Wachtel is a writer, editor, critic, and radio personality. In the following interview, Page discusses her early life, her poetry and prose, and various literary influences. She also describes her foray into drawing.

Since the mid-1960s, P. K. Page has lived in Victoria, in a large cedar home set in a garden landscaped by her husband. The rooms are filled with the exotic objects one might expect to find in a retired diplomat's residence—especially a diplomat who is married to an artist. The geometric design on the tiles of a coffee table, rescued from a dismantled house in Brazil, evoke a mathematical perfection that Page traces from a mosque to the proportions of a cathedral she visited in northern Brazil.

It was in this house the interview took place….