12 or 20 questions with Matthew Tierney

Read rob mclennan's Q & A (19 questions, to be exact) with Matthew Tierney (The Hayflick Limit), posted on mclennan's blog.

From the interview:

David W. McFadden once said that books come from books, but are there any other forms that influence your work, whether nature, music, science or visual art?

The Hayflick Limit was chiefly informed by various branches of science, some math and economics. This was a conscious effort to sharpen my focus and a way to reforge some neural paths (I began my undergraduate as a physics major).

The scientific gaze sometimes chafes against sensory experience. We “see” a coherence in the world that isn’t really there. I wanted to exploit this, create a hyper-aware poem. You don’t need to know the biochemistry involved when you walk across a room, but what if you did? What if your head had access to this knowledge as easily as you do the visible spectrum or sound waves?

Read more at http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/06/12-or-20-questions-with-matthew-....