Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
“Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel Interlude: the interviewersPeter Selversen and Jenny Hare were rushing toward Hilary in a rented Volkswagen as Route 128 unwound itself, a long wide ribbon up and down hills. Nerved up, as the journey from New York neared its end, they were acutely aware of what they saw around them.The May day had kept its freshness, and at three o’clock still retained the quality of stained glass; they moved through a huge iridescent bubble of fresh greens and reds ...against a transparent blue sky without a cloud. Everywhere the lilac had burst into clusters of pale green pointed leaves; the small estuaries and tidal rivers floated the sky. For the moment they were talked out, full of what they were seeing and of the quarry before them, expectancy layered over conjecture, and the magic of the day itself layered over that; what would there have been to say? Besides they were still in the stage of “making conversation”; they had met only the week before, in order to prepare the interview.The editors of The Review felt that it might be a good idea to have a woman along, and picked Jenny because she was George’s girl friend (he was associate editor); she was not a poet, but she had won an O.MoreLess
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