{"id":31939,"date":"2013-06-26T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31939"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:21:03","slug":"podcast-interview-with-paisley-rekdal-poet-and-2013-unt-rilke-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31939","title":{"rendered":"Podcast interview with Paisley Rekdal, poet and 2013 UNT Rilke Prize winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Podcast interview with Paisley Rekdal, poet and 2013 UNT Rilke Prize winner<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
\n2013-04-29<\/p>\n

Julie K. West<\/a><\/strong>, Publications Specialist
\nOffice of Research and Economic Development<\/p>\n

Poet Paisley Rekdal<\/a> is the 2013 recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize. The $10,000 award, named for the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke<\/a>, recognizes a book written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision. Paisley visited the UNT Department of English<\/a> in April 2013 to accept the award for her prize-winning collection of poetry, \u201cAnimal Eye,\u201d published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She joins Julie West, publications specialist with the UNT Office of Research, in an audio podcast interview to discuss her poetry and the creative writing process.<\/p>\n

…JW<\/strong>: But yet that does seem to be somewhat of a theme running not only through this work but you, yourself, as a Chinese-American with Norwegian ancestry \u2026 surely you are used to switching lens \u2026<\/p>\n

PR<\/strong>: doubled<\/p>\n

JW<\/strong>: \u2026 and having that doubled perspective, and I\u2019m just now thinking of that, even, as I hear you read this last poem.<\/p>\n

PR<\/strong>: I think that\u2019s very true. I think that\u2019s a really good point. What\u2019s funny though, is the doubled-ness of my vision is not cultural because I grew up in America. So, to a certain extent, the doubled-ness of my vision is something that\u2019s been placed on me. The ways in which \u2014 depending on who\u2019s looking at me \u2014 I\u2019m either potentially Chinese, or White, or a mixture of both … when people are interested in my ancestry and they\u2019ll ask me questions about that.<\/strong> For me I feel like there\u2019s a real \u2014 even though any self contains multiplicities and complexities \u2014 I feel like there\u2019s a real unity to my vision. But the experience of being biracial in America means that I do recognize how I can appear two ways and what I mean can mean multiple things. So the willingness and the interest in playing with multiple perspectives \u2014 moving in and out of different bodies \u2014 I think reflects that, for sure, what you\u2019re just pointing out \u2014 that experience of being biracial. But it doesn\u2019t actually reflect my own identity, if that makes any sense. How biracialism exists outside of me, even though I, myself, am biracial…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the podcast here<\/a>. Read the transcript here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Podcast interview with Paisley Rekdal, poet and 2013 UNT Rilke Prize winner University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 2013-04-29 Julie K. West, Publications Specialist Office of Research and Economic Development Poet Paisley Rekdal is the 2013 recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize. The $10,000 award, named for the great German poet, Rainer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2850,13743,8,20],"tags":[15038,15039,3075,15040],"class_list":["post-31939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-audio","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-julie-k-west","tag-julie-west","tag-paisley-rekdal","tag-rainer-maria-rilke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}