For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
Garth GreenwellI'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
Garth GreenwellI do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.
Garth GreenwellMy life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.
Garth Greenwell