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Jim Goar was
born
in
San
Francisco and has
lived
in
Tucson,
Arizona;
Changsha,
China;
Boulder,
Colorado;
Bangkok,
Thailand;
Seoul,
South
Korea;
Norwich,
England;
and,
whenever
possible,
Brevard,
North
Carolina.
He
received
an
MFA
from
Naropa
University
and
is
currently
studying
Jack
Spicer's The
Holy
Grail at
the
University
of
East
Anglia.
In
2010,
Reality
Street
brought
out
his
first
full-length
collection, Seoul
Bus
Poems. Goar
edits
the
journal past
simple
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Short
Story Collections
The Louisiana Purchase
(Rose Metal Press, 2011)
reviewed
by Loree Westron
Seoul Bus Poems
(reality Street, 2010)
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Interview
with Jim Goar
The
Short Review:
How long did it take you to write all the prose poems in your collection?
Jim Goar: It took about seven years to write The Louisiana Purchase. One
section was written in Boulder, another in Bangkok, and another in Seoul.
TSR:
Did you
have a collection in mind when you were writing them?
JG: Yes, after the first few poems were written I knew it was a
series.
TSR:
How did
you choose which prose poems to include and in what order?
JG: I was very lucky to have Pirooz Kalayeh around to help me
with this. We put all the poems on the
floor and then began to organize from there.
TSR:
What
does the word "story"
mean to you?
JG:
It is the way that things are remembered.
TSR:
Do you have a reader in mind when you write?
JG:
I am the first reader. If I like it, someone else might like
it too.
TSR: Is
there
anything you'd like to ask someone who has read your collection, anything at all?
JG: Where did you read it?
TSR: How does
it feel knowing that people are buying your book?
JG: Rose Metal Press invested good money in The Louisiana Purchase, so I am happy if people are buying. My primary concern, however, is that the book
gets read.
TSR:
What are you working on now?
JG:
I am finishing up a study of Jack Spicer’s The Holy Grail.
TSR:
What are
the three most recent short story collections you've read?
JG:
Adam Golaski’s
Color Plates, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, Bible
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