Featured Interview With Uvi Poznansky
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hi Everyone! Born in Israel, I earned my master of architecture at RPI in Troy, New York, and my master in computer science in the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I am an artist, poet and author, I have published five books during the last couple of years: Rise to Power, Apart From Love, Home, Twisted, and A Favorite Son.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started telling stories before I knew how to put pen to paper. My father, who was a poet and writer, would write down my stories. He also used to ask me to rhyme his poems for him, as a fun way that led me into the music of words.
To my surprise, he sent me an entire notebook full of these early stories, written in his beautiful, calligraphic handwriting. They arrived here just before he passed away.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Surprisingly, I find poetry to be the greatest influence on my writing: I appreciate the nuances, the overloading of words, and the musical rhythms used in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, the sonnets by Shakespeare, and the lyrical descriptions of Virginia Wolfe, to name but a few. I love The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, and Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, for their expressive use of ‘stream of consciousness’. Playwrights Arthur Miller, T. Williams.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
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