The Colorado Poet, #23, Summer 2013

,A Black Odyssey (Mercury HeartLink Press, 2013)

Bob King:  In your acknowledgements you say this collection is your attempt “to cram 30 years of poetry into one volume.” To structure this, you arranged them in subheadings referencing stages and places of Odysseus’ journey in The Odyssey. How difficult was this process? Did it have ups and downs? Runs and halts?

SETH: I wouldn’t use the word difficult. Nothing is difficult when you enjoy ...