Daniel Nester Interviews Me
You write sestinas.
Why the sestina?
What attracts you to the sestina?
How many sestinas
have you written? Are you a sestina
nut? Do you remember the first sestina
you ever read? What’s your favorite sestina?
You’ve written how many sestinas
in how many years? Undergraduate sestinas?
Graduate school sestinas?
Thesis composed entirely of sestinas?
How many sestinas
do you write a year? Do you do a sestina
a month? A sestina
a week? A sestina
a day? The sestina
is a strenuous form. Do your sestinas
succeed? Do your sestinas
surprise? Are your sestinas
quick and lean? How many sestinas
do you toss? How many sestinas
do you abandon? How many sestinas
fail? You exploit the sestina.
Would you recommend the sestina?
Do you teach the sestina?
Are your sestinas
online? Have you read your sestinas
at KGB? Do your daughters read your sestinas?
Does your husband love your sestinas?
Are you addicted to the sestina?
Does everything you write come out sestina?
Can you tell us what it is about the sestina?
Have you advice for the beginning sestina
writer? How’s it feel to author a famous sestina,
a sestina
as widely anthologized as “All-American Sestina”?
Is this a sestina, a particular kind of sestina?
Is there a name for this sestina, this variant sestina?
Maybe it’s not a sestina? Is it a sestina?