Ａ：琳达帕斯坦71岁时已写了11卷诗，她是罗斯里诗歌奖得主，她获得了终生成就奖，奖金是１０万美元。

Ｂ：Thank you

A:在读你的诗时，我发现一贯的风格：简明扼要、清晰、简短、善于捕捉细微的瞬间

Ｂ：well,I have a natural impulse to condense.I'd like to write long narrative poems .I'd like to write a novel. and  any time I start anything long, I Keep trying to take out anything extraneous, And I  end up with a small lyric poem that just happens. But each poem of mine goes through something like 100 revisions.

A：你在寻求什么呢？

Ｂ：Ｗell,I want every word to have to be there. I want a certain kind of impact on the reader,the sort of condensed energy that can the go out.

A:你写了很多关于你自己的生活、关于家庭事物、关于现实生活的事情。你为什么喜欢选择这样的题材？

Ｂ：I have always written about what's around me but I mean, there's alwaye something changing. When my children were small, there were a lot of small childtren running through the pomems.As firends and family have stanted to age and die, there's a lot more darkness and death in them. But I think I've always been interested in the dangers that are under the surface. but seem like simple, ordinary domestic life. It may  seem like smooth surfaces, but there are tension and dangers right undemeath , and those are what I'm trying to get at .

A：我通常不会问这个问题，但我想问你准备怎么用那１０万美金。

Ｂ：I have seven grandchildren who are going to need some kind of help with college. So I'm going to do something serious with some of that money. But I felt that I had to do something really fun for myself, and sine I am a compulsive reader , I am giving myself permission to buy any books I want to buy . I used to write them down when I read about them or read reviews and  wait a year until they came out in paperback . Now when they some out in hardback, if I want then I'm going to let myself buy them.

Ａ:好，琳达帕斯坦，祝贺并谢谢你与我们的交流。

Ｂ:thank you.