Robert Kloss is the author of the books How the Days of Love & Diphtheria and The Alligators of Abraham, both from Mud Luscious Press. He is found online at robert-kloss.com.
An excerpt from The Alligators of Abrahamappears in Issue Forty of The Collagist.
Here, Robert Kloss answers interview questions "in the form of excerpts" -- with further excerpts from The Alligators of Abraham.
Enjoy!
1. What is writing like?
Soon all sound became the sound of echoes, of wild dogs baying, of gulls shrieking and swirling, and those sounds were lost within the sounds of alligators, hissing and thrashing and devouring the meat of dead soldiers.
2. What isn’t writing like?
Remember how quiet the world was in the absence of crackling and humming.
3. When you do it, why?
“To forever hold what may not be held.”
4. When you don’t, why?
And in those days, when you were not in classes, you sat in the shadows of picture-houses watching biblical projections like The Original Sin, the sounds of static moans and the fumy black and white apparitions of a hundred positions of copulation, and Sodom and Gomorrah, the curves of women topless and women outfitted in pale diaphanous negligees, the parting of legs and those dark furs beneath, while greased men in headdresses carrying some manner of sword lingered behind stone monuments, and beneath the dialogue came the sound of meat dully slapping, the panting of viewers.