I began writing this collection many years ago, long before I thought I might ever have a book or be a poet. How can it be all things simultaneously? Can you talk about the origins of this collection? Molly Spencer: It’s visceral, it’s chilling, it’s elegant. Please join me in welcoming the lovely and talented Molly Spencer to the author interview series. She is a poetry editor for Rumpus, and this collection won the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition in Poetry 2019. Molly Spencer’s poetry has appeared in various well-known and recognized literary journals. HINGE is the perfect read for the bleaker days of late fall, into winter, as we naturally fold within ourselves. I have a wealth of images trapped in my mind from the words–and worlds–created within these pages. It’s about space and homes and how they all tie together, but also seasons and cycles and interiority. There’s a great deal of tension and then well-earned release, the world and imagery rich in details and texture, about creation and recreation, told in a simply elegant, yet mournful voice. ~ WRITERS INTERVIEWING WRITERS|ALWAYS WITH A BOOK~ POETRY FRIDAYĪside from the arresting cover, HINGE by Molly Spencer (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, 2020) is a gorgeous meditation of motherhood, the passage of time, a stunted world–in terms of all–land, home, marriage, and body. Myth, legend, landscape…lush and razor-sharp lines…HINGE is exactly that: revealing and concealing–sometimes squeaky–moments in time.
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