34: Daniel & Ben talk with writer Sherwin Bitsui, author of “Flood Song,” winner of the American Book Award. Bitsui talks about the intuitive process by which he conceives of his poems, and why he has to hear his poems sung or read.
Bitsui also reads a poem from his collection “Flood Song”
Sherwin Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl'izilani (Many Goats Clan).
He holds a BA from University of Arizona and an AFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is the recipient of a Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, an Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, a Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency, a 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2008 Tucson MOCA Local Genius Award, a 2010 PEN Open Book Award and an
American Book Award for his book Flood Song.
Sherwin has published his poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Lit, Narrative and elsewhere. His poems were also anthologized in Between Water & Song, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He is the author of Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press 2003) and Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press 2009).
(Taken from http://www.bitsui.com/?q=node/1 )
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