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I recently had the wonderful opportunity to interview Lauren K. Alleyne, the author of “Difficult Fruit”, a gripping poetic collage of her life’s journey thus far. It is compelling in its earnestness and rich in vibrant imagery. The interview went as follows:<\/p>\n

1.Where are you from?<\/p>\n

I am from cane fields and Convent, mango trees and cocoyea brooms; from my parents and my siblings, from the sea. I am from steel pan and calypso, Panorama and Parliament take overs. I am from David Rudder and Ras Shorty I. I am from pelau and roti, Mario\u2019s and KFC. I am from \u2018not enough\u2019 and \u2018make do\u2019, from cut tail and church every Sunday, from friendships that string through time and distance. I am from Trinidad and Tobago, from New York, from Iowa, from Qatar, from Scotland, from this whole and wondrous world.<\/p>\n

2.How if at all has your childhood in the Caribbean influenced your writing today?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible not to be influenced by the place you grew up in! So many things from my childhood and the place of my birth and upbringing have left their mark on my writing– the Trini\u2019s love of a good ole talk, the melodiousness of our accent, the inventiveness of a cuss out, the political savvy and social engagement of calypso, the abandon of Carnival, the love of ritual and religion, all of it has made me the writer I am.<\/p>\n

3.Why the name Difficult Fruit?<\/p>\n

The name \u201cDifficult Fruit\u201d comes from the long poem, \u201cEighteen,\u201d and what\u2019s at the heart of that poem, which I consider the heart of this collection is the idea of things coming to bear\u2014in the case of that poem, a suppressed memory, but also a self strong enough to face that memory when it arises. When I decided on this title (there have been many titles!), I thought it captured everything I wanted to talk about\u2014change, growth, transformation, the notion of coming into one\u2019s own, which is never an easy task, but is a critical one. 4.How long have you been writing poetry? I\u2019ve written for as long as I can remember, but the most formal writing outside of school that I did was write calypsos for my younger sister. I remember my piano teacher saying O, so you write poetry, when I told her this, and me with typical teenage scorn witheringly letting her know it was no such thing. When I came to NY for college, I wrote all the time as a way of marking occasions, feelings, and even then, I never thought I was \u2018writing poetry\u2019 just that I was clearing my head. It was really in Creative Writing class in college that I took in probably my junior year, that I really began to think of the craft of poetry, and moreover that poetry itself was something I could pursue as a discipline, and the rest, as they say, is herstory!<\/p>\n

5.What do you hope your reader to take away from this work?<\/p>\n

I really believe that readers take away from a work what they need, which is why our tastes change as we do, and our feelings about a book or poem we loved or hated might be altered the next time we encounter it. That said, I hope that whatever journey the poems take their readers on, that it is one that moves through struggle toward hope, that makes space for both celebration and grief, and that opens them in some deep and meaningful way.<\/p>\n

For more information or to purchase a copy of Difficult Fruit please go to www.laurenkalleyne.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently had the wonderful opportunity to interview Lauren K. Alleyne, the author of “Difficult Fruit”, a gripping poetic collage of her life’s journey thus far. It is compelling in its earnestness and rich in vibrant imagery. The interview went as follows: 1.Where are you from? I am from cane fields and Convent, mango trees and cocoyea brooms; from my parents and my siblings, from the sea. I am from steel pan and calypso, Panorama and Parliament take overs. I am from David Rudder and Ras Shorty I. I am from pelau and roti, Mario\u2019s and KFC. I am from \u2018not enough\u2019 and \u2018make do\u2019, from cut tail and church every Sunday, from friendships that string through time and distance. I am from Trinidad and Tobago, from New York, from Iowa, from Qatar, from Scotland, from this whole and wondrous world. 2.How if at all has your childhood in the Caribbean influenced your writing today? It\u2019s impossible not to be influenced by the place you grew up in! So many things from my childhood and the place of my birth and upbringing have left their mark on my writing– the Trini\u2019s love of a good ole talk, the melodiousness of our accent, the inventiveness of a cuss out, the political savvy and social engagement of calypso, the abandon of Carnival, the love of ritual and religion, all of it has made me the writer I am. 3.Why the name Difficult Fruit? The name \u201cDifficult Fruit\u201d comes from the long poem, \u201cEighteen,\u201d and what\u2019s at the heart of that poem, which I consider the heart of this collection is the idea of things coming to bear\u2014in the case of that poem, a suppressed memory, but also a self strong enough to face that memory when it arises. When I decided on this title (there have been many titles!), I thought it captured everything I wanted to talk about\u2014change, growth, transformation, the notion of coming into one\u2019s own, which is never an easy task, but is a critical one. 4.How long have you been writing poetry? I\u2019ve written for as long as I can remember, but the most formal writing outside of school that I did was write calypsos for my younger sister. I remember my piano teacher saying O, so you write poetry, when I told her this, and me with typical teenage scorn witheringly letting her know it was no such thing. When I came to NY for college, I wrote all the time as a way of marking occasions, feelings, and even then, I never thought I was \u2018writing poetry\u2019 just that I was clearing my head. 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