deanhunt/les-murry-on-typewriters

## les-murry-on-typewriters
INTERVIEWER

As someone whose poems suggest a certain fascination with machines, why haven't you migrated from typewriter to computer?

LES MURRAY

The computer isn't a machine, it's a traffic with spirits. I'm no good with keyboards and I'm private enough not to want everything I write or miswrite being open to surveillance forever in the akashic record of cyberspace. _Writing on the computer is a bit like sculpture: You sculpt the poem on the screen. Or it's a kind of patchwork; then all the patches disappear and you've got something where all the elaboration and work that has gone into it has vanished._ The poem looks as if it's been published, but old mistakes still come up ghostlike from behind the process.

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5508/the-art-of-poetry-no-89-les-murray

Version Two.
	INTERVIEWER

	As someone whose poems suggest a certain fascination with machines, why haven't you migrated from typewriter to computer?

	LES MURRAY

	The computer isn't a machine, it's a traffic with spirits. I'm no good with keyboards and I'm private enough not to want everything I write or miswrite being open to surveillance forever in the akashic record of cyberspace. _Writing on the computer is a bit like sculpture: You sculpt the poem on the screen. Or it's a kind of patchwork; then all the patches disappear and you've got something where all the elaboration and work that has gone into it has vanished._ The poem looks as if it's been published, but old mistakes still come up ghostlike from behind the process.

	http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5508/the-art-of-poetry-no-89-les-murray

	Version Two.