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Interview #15: Hugh Cook

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Sincerely Art --- Interview Series Sy Albright interviews Hugh Cook -- poet/author  His forth coming poetry book "The Day It Became a Circle" is soon to be published by Afterworld Books. SA: I am fortunate to be privy to your first and forthcoming poetry title “The Day It Became a Circle” soon to be published by Afterworld Books. I, too, share the same adherence to poetic titles as poets Mark Antony Rossi and Linda Imbler in that it automatically sets the right literary tone. This is a perfect title. Explain how you came about it and why it connects to the material contained in the book. HC: The title is symbolic of both the experience of travelling away and returning home and of the knowledge and renewed perspective I gained through travelling. In my experience literature and poetry that explore travel often don’t consider the return home, the place where the journey begins, and ends, in a circle. Then life goes on. What I hope my title captures