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Victor D. Infante
Genre
Mostly poetry
home town
Currently Worcester, MA.
home on the web
http://www.victorinfante.com/
past material
Literally hundreds of poems, short stories, essays and articles. Some recent
publications include poems in Sage Trail, The Nervous Breakdown and Dark
Horizons, along with a short story in the upcoming Chiron Review. My first
full-length poetry collection is City of Insomnia, out on Write Bloody
Publishing.
current project
I’m in the midst of a number of projects, including what I think may be a
graphic novel, as well as putting together my second book of poetry.
places where books are available for purchases
It’s always best for everyone to order straight from the publisher, http://writebloody.com/,
but you can order it anywhere you buy books.
Interview questions
How did you get your start in writing?
I always wanted to write, and wrote my first poem in 2nd Grade. It was
half-plagiarized from The Star Wars Christmas Album. I mostly grew up wanting to
write comic books, but poetry started commanding my attention in my early teens.
who are your biggest influences
I’ve been lucky to know some fantastic poets at a young age, such as Marcia
Cohee, Ted Walker and Patricia Smith, all whom really opened new horizons of
possibility for me. Less personally, I’ve found myself really influenced by T.S.
Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Carolyn Forche.
What is your biggest inspiration when creating?
I’m not sure I have one, really. It’s always this poem in front of me, this
story. When I’m writing, the goal is simply to convey whatever it is I’m looking
at.
Could you give us the details of your current project?
There’s not that much to tell, really. The graphic novel is simmering while I
look for an artist to collaborate with, which is harder than it sounds, and my
newest short story is in its second draft, and I hope to have that done very
soon.
What is the next goal you would like to achieve with your
writing?
I’m afraid I have to take some small exception to this talk of “projects” and
“achieving.” That’s not really my process. I write what drives me, what’s taking
space in my head at a given moment, and when they’re done, the only goal is to
get them out to an audience who will appreciate them. The rest sounds too much
like marketing speak.
Final four (questions we ask all interviewees)
When the zombies take over the world where will you be?
Probably at my desk writing. I live on the second floor, though, and as I
recall, they’re none too good with stairs. So that’ll buy me some time.
Jedi, Ninja, vampire, were-wolf, pirate, fairy or Spartan?
What, like, in a bar fight or something? Totally go with ninjas. They kick ass
and they can repair telephones!
What one piece of art, be it music, book, film or picture,
do you think people must experience before they die?
No answer to this question ever sounds good, does it? It’s almost impossible to
not sound pretentious. But I’d have to give a nod to the Getty Museum in Los
Angeles. Not the collection – which is OK – but the building itself, which is
staggering beautiful.
Give one fact that most people would not believe about you?
I never know what’s odd or not odd anymore: I wrote an entry on Sir Richard
Francis Burton for a role-playing game product, I spent a week engaged in a
drinking contest in Holland, I’ve met all of the members of the Sisterhood of
the Traveling Pants. From this side, it all just seems like life.
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