Sounds Anglo-American Robert Vas Dias interviewed by Robert Hampson

Sounds Anglo-American Robert Vas Dias interviewed by Robert Hampson

In this interview with Robert Hampson, which focuses on his American career, Robert Vas Dias discusses his introduction to modern poetry through a reading by Langston Hughes; his early grounding in Yeats, Whitman, Pound, and Eliot; his first New York reading at the Five Spot (during a break by the Thelonious Monk Quartet); his friendship with Paul Blackburn; New York in the 1960s; his collaborations with visual artists; the founding of the Aspen Writers’ Workshop and his meetings with poets and artists including Mina Loy, Jonathan Williams, Basil Bunting, and Claes Oldenburg in Colorado; his return to New York where he joined the faculty of NYU with the poets Jackson Mac Low, Michael Heller, Clayton Eshleman and Charles Levendosky; and the organising and directing of the National Poetry Festivals (1971 and 1973) at Thomas Jefferson College in Michigan.

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