Archive for November, 2007
The Return of Devil-girl! or, The Stories of Devil-girl, a novella
The Stories of Devil-girl is a novella which I recorded on a double CD set and released shortly before the war in Iraq broke out in 2003. It works at the crossroads of poetry and prose, and of autobiography and fiction, perhaps also of the brutal and the magical. I began writing it in 1989, [...]
Posted: November 29th, 2007 under Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Character Development, Language and the Way of Words, Narrators, Voice.
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Back to the Invisible: the intersection of truth and the poetic art
Neruda suggests in his poem Arte Poetica from the first volume of Residencia en la tierra published in 1933, that the poetic art, or at least the poet, works and flounders and suffers “Between shadow and space, young girls and garrisons”, which calls to my mind, somehow precisely, the situation of 4 young Muslim men from England, [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2007 under Creative Process, General Writing, Language and the Way of Words, News; things to look for, Poetry.
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Business and Pleasure, and a little celebration of writers.
You know how everything you really want to do takes longer than you planned? Consider that the story of a writer. As well the story of this blog writer. There is something in store which has to do with my novella, The Stories of Devil-girl, and soon, I will be letting you know that news.
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Posted: November 10th, 2007 under Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, General Writing, News; things to look for.
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