KL: I love the
recasting of Sexton as the ‘St Barbara of Poetry’. Like Caravaggio, there seems
to be a sensuality in your appropriation of traditional religious iconography.
How do the material arts inspire you?
AB: As a writer I am greatly influenced by art as well.
Both Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi have found their way into my poems.
My personal iconography is wildly captured by sensuality and sensuousness. How
can someone not be enraptured by Michelangelo’s or Bernini’s bodies? Such unparalleled
beauty. Something hard to achieve in writing, but still worth trying!
a few lines from the new interview of Alessandra Bava, about her new poetry chapbook, "They Talk About Death" (Blood Pudding Press, 2014), appearing within Cultural Weekly.
Read more here - http://www.culturalweekly.com/apocalypse-words-
You can also read five poems from the chapbook within this interview.
Then if you desire to read the other poems in the chapbook (while holding it in your hands), you can find out more and/or get your very own copy here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_active_13
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