The Triumph of a Heart: Poets & Writers on Garth Greenwell
Poets & Writers’ September/October 2024 issue has hit the stands, and beloved author Garth Greenwell graces the cover. Writer Brian Gresko goes into detail on his meeting with Garth to talk all about his life, brand-new book, and debilitating hospitalization that left him wondering if he’d live or die — and what that meant for the life he’s lived thus far. You can find the September/October issue of Poets & Writers on our B&N newsstands, and don’t miss Garth Greenwell’s conversation with Miwa on our Poured Over podcast.
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Acclaimed author Garth Greenwell (Cleanness and What Belongs to You) returns to the United States with a haunting story of one man’s emotional reckoning.
Acclaimed author Garth Greenwell (Cleanness and What Belongs to You) returns to the United States with a haunting story of one man’s emotional reckoning.
From the magazine:
With a graceful flick of the wrist, Garth Greenwell produces a small pink fan, unfolds it, and flutters it in front of his face, an elegant move executed with such deft sleight of hand I don’t notice whether he pulled the fan from his bag or back pocket. I’m impressed and envious—sweat stipples my forehead as well. We’re at a café in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Outside, the overcast day cannot decide whether it wants to be muggy or chilly. Either way, it’s uncomfortable, and as we order iced coffee we reminisce about the last time we met in person, in November 2019, in the same neighborhood, when the weather was inhospitable in another extreme, windy and frigid. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic changed everyone’s lives, but for me and Greenwell something else changed, too.
In July 2020, in Brooklyn, I was hospitalized for a sharp pain in my gut that several hours of scrutiny and tests determined to be caused by an intestinal blockage. Surgery cleared it, though no one could figure out why a forty-something like me, healthy and without a history of digestive issues, would experience a life-threatening problem like this, more common in much older people. Around the same period, in Iowa City, where he lives with his partner, Greenwell was also hospitalized. In his case, the issue was with his heart.