S6:E35--Pt 2: Marc Vincenz talks with Roxi Power

The Hive Poetry Collective

In Part 2 of our interview, Marc Vincenz—author of over 40 books of poetry—talks about his book of poetry, The Pearl Diver of Irunmani (White Pine Press, 2023). We dive into the deep waters of a consciousness preparing for death. During a health crisis, Vincenz came into a new language informed by this encounter, finding footing in "the heart of a word" and his own fearless observations. "See the island in your mind/or you will always be lost."

Vincenz takes us into "the theater of fear"..."when the audience leaves and you're left only with yourself." The poet and the reader emerge changed. Like a cyborg prophet, Marc now writes from the seam between worlds—life and death, nature and "the machinery of the world" (Borges)—mitigating oppositions with deep music. "The traffic doesn't slow/the bling navigates/like porpoises' eyes/ in the windows,/those deep dangling metaphors/in a city tangled up in its own industrial age."

You can hear Pt. 1 of our interview which aired 10/6/24 on KSQD. We discuss Marc's book, The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars (Lavender Ink, 2024) here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the-hive8/episodes/S6E31-Marc-Vincenz-talks-with-Roxi-Power-e2pcb8o

Marc Vincenz is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, publisher, musician and artist. His latest poetry collections are A Splash of Cave Paint, and The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars. His latest translation is An Audible Blue: Selected Poems (1963 - 2016) by celebrated Swiss poet and novelist, Klaus Merz, which won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award for Translated Literature. His forthcoming poetry collections are Spells for the Wicked (Unlikely Books 2025) and No More Animal Poems with White Pine Press in 2026. Marc’s work has been translated into German, Russian, Romanian, French, Icelandic, and Chinese. Marc is the publisher for⁠ MadHat Press ⁠and New American Writing. He produces and hosts the biweekly reading series on Zoom, ⁠Lit Balm.

https://madhat-press.com/

https://litbalm.org/