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Robert Frede Kenter

Robert is widely published; a forthcoming book, FATHER TECTONIC, is avail Feb 2025 from Ethel Zine Press. Robert is EIC/publisher, Ice Floe Press. Bluesky: @rfredekenter.bsky.social, IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, icefloe22; Twitter: @frede_kenter Website: http://www.icefloepress.net

The Interview

1 How did you decide on what poems to send?

Through a negotiated settlement with my brain.

2 What poetic form did it take, and why?

Prose poems; in this particular segment of the Whiskey Tree project. To me the concept of nature rewilding lend to a focal lens on a wider horizontal, spiraling cinema of affect, image associations, building blocks of parallel and dialectical revenge scenarios. Revenant ghost takes, afterimages.

3 How did you use the whiteness of the page in your poem?

The blank page absorbs and swirls like a super saturated outtake of the transformation of trees into pulp/ then / paper which historically has led to mercury-contamination of local lakes and rivers.

4 How did you decide on the title of your poem?

Double/entendre…between an emotionally emitted restlessness and the name of a flower.

5 Imagery, or narrative. Which was more important to you in writing the poem?

The narrative is a world(s) built from accretion of relational images: from historical architecture to the spine of my father, entrapment specimen in an interior dialogic relationship.

6 What do you think of where your poem is placed in the collection?

I like where “Impatience” is placed; near the end, with other poems before and after it that seem very much like call-response pieces, though we had not shown each other our work ahead of time; a sort of zeitgeist osmosis in compilation of theme.

7 Once they have read your poem, what do you hope the reader will leave with?

I hope the reader enters the world, and when they leave, find some trace of its materiality affixed to a coat, a favorite trouser leg, a vision on a coffee table, perhaps about to vanish. Robert Frede Kenter is multiple pushcart & BOTN nominee, a writer, editor & visual artist utilizing intersections of form, theme, performance, language, to interrogate historical/personal & cultural issues & deconstruct norms.