Interviews & Reviews
Interviews
Book Launch for WINE-DARK SEA and AZOREAN SUITE/SUITE AÇORIANA from 7 April 2022 at Letras Lavadas, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Açores.
A Review & Interview with Scott Edward Anderson by Esmeralda Cabral
From Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies, Spring 2021.
The journey: Scott Edward Anderson at home away from home – Interview
An Interview by Carolina Matos, The Portuguese-American Journal, November 2020.
E aqui está a versão portuguesa da Agenda Açores: Entrevista
GOOD POETRY [Podcast]
Host Adam Coons talks with Scott Edward Anderson about his poetic influences, the importance of mentorship, and hear a variety of poems and essays from his works.
Behind a Name, Into a Poem [Q&A]
An Interview with Scott Edward Anderson by Hamline Lit Link, Hamline University English Department's Home for Creative Connection about two poems, "Naming" and "Villanesca".
“Like a lot of men in our society, I didn’t grow up with great role models”
An Interview with Scott Edward Anderson by Taylor Matlock, Pine Hills Review, May 2020.
IN THE BALANCE [Podcast]
Host Susan Lambert speaks with Scott Edward Anderson about his book DWELLING: an ecopoem and about how to to discover a more balanced relationship - an interrelationship - between human beings and the earth.
DWELLING IN NATURE'S EMPIRE
An Interview with Scott Edward Anderson by Mark Danowsky from Schuylkill Valley Journal.
Reviews
Incrível vídeo de revisão em vídeo da Suite Açoriana de Maria João Covas, cujas críticas em vídeo que tenho vindo a ver há já algum tempo para praticar a minha compreensão portuguesa. Ela tem coisas notáveis a dizer sobre o meu livro e uma ideia encantadora sobre uma leitura alternativa do título, que adoro.
Review of SUITE AÇORIANA by Vamberto Freitas from Açoriano Oriental
Este é um poema que sai felizmente em de forma livro, com a versão original em Inglês, e a tradução integral feita por José Francisco Costa, imigrado nos EUA, e por Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto, imigrado na Canadá, ambos poetas e prosadores reconhecidos entre nós aqui no arquipélago e em muitas outras partes. Scott Edward Anderson é um dos mais originais escritores por múltiplas razões.
Here is the English language version, published in the Portuguese American Journal: When You Return Home…
Review of DWELLING: An Ecopoem by John Abraham from JohnAbrahamWatne
Hello readers and welcome to the final installment of the 2020 Reading List. I am pivoting through genres (last time taking my second dramatic detour) and decided on a poetry collection for my final book. In this case Scott Edward Anderson’s 2018 collection Dwelling: An Ecopoem. As the subtitle indicates, this was much more than just a group of poems and I found a lot of philosophical and environmental considerations laced throughout the work. Read More
Review of FALLING UP by Vamberto Freitas from Açoriano Oriental
FALLING UP: A Memoir of Second Chances, de Scott Edward Anderson, é o que chamamos um pequeno grande livro. O seu autor sempre sempre fez sair os seus livros numa ou numas pequenas editoras que se especializam em prestar atenção a autores especiais e que são capazes de sair da literatura chamada canónica ou de grande expansão nacional.
Review of DWELLING by Christopher Woods from New Pages blog
Dwelling by Scott Edward Anderson, delves deeply into this subject in the form of a book-length eco-poem. It began as a reaction to Martin Heidegger’s essay “Building Dwelling Thinking” and, in Anderson’s lyrical writing, took on a book-length life of its own. He asks questions such as “Do we carry home within?” Anderson’s poetic probing explores our place, not only inside a home, but in the larger world that is home to us all.
Review of FALLOW FIELD by Glynn Young
It’s easy to like these poems. They read easily and well. They are about familiar things. And yet they do what good poetry should do, and that’s to provide a different view, an unexpected perspective, taking the familiar and bathing it in unfamiliar shades and colors. Anderson even includes a bit of unvarnished biography in the two concluding poems of the volume, “The Poet Gene” and “The Postlude, or How I Became a Poet.”
Review of FALLOW FIELD by Christopher Cadra from basalt
When I read the poems of Scott Edward Anderson’s Fallow Field, I envision a Romantic poet standing on the bridge between William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg. If that sounds odd, let me explain. A Romantic influence reveals itself as the pulse of Anderson’s Fallow Field. But American poets, American poetry, from the Modern era up to the Beats, show up in lesser but sundry ways throughout the work. And not just American poets, as various quotes (from Pessoa, Coelho, and others) throughout the work show Anderson is not limited to the Romantics, American poets, either or both.
Review of FALLOW FIELD by Richard Fenwick
Years ago, while talking about Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” with one of my English professors, he related that he’d once asked a friend to read the great novel. The friend did, and after a week or so my professor asked him what he thought. His friend paused, then finally answered simply: “The guy,” he said of Melville, “really knew his whales!”
A great answer, and I was reminded of it in the middle of Scott Edward Anderson’s wonderful new collection of poetry, Fallow Field (Aldrich Press), so alive with song birds, deer, and remote latitudes that I’m convinced Anderson is as in-tune with the romantic notion as any poet writing today. “This guy,” my college professor’s friend might have said, “really knows his nature!”
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Brooklyn Poets (2012)
Interview and Poem on Brooklyn Poets for "Poet of the Week"
An Essay on the Poetry of Scott Edward Anderson by Veronika Morley
This essay from 2001 by a student at DeAnza College in Cupertino, CA, explores the poetry of Scott Edward Anderson and the influences of Donald Hall and Elizabeth Bishop in his work.