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People, Books, Aliens, and Poetry…not necessarily in that order…

Apr 11 By Marjorie

“Getting to know other people first involves an encounter; the more unusual the encounter, the more wonderful the experience…”

I saw the above while reading a press statement about Chinese film director, Zhang Yimou.  For some reason I can’t get it out of my head—perhaps because it seems so relevant to being a storyteller. Not that stories have to be unusual to be wonderful, but there should be something about the tale that speaks to you like no other.  Encountering books is a lot like encountering people; some are better than others.  And some you want to run like hell from.

Someone in yesterday’s comments mentioned Neruda.  Here’s an interview with him, translated and published from a radio program in 1971:  You have only to go over my poems, only the title of my poems. I write on everything imaginable, and on the revolt of man as well. That�s important; it�s a part of the poetry. Very important, and very honorable. It�s not all the poetry; one has to clarify that. I was going to tell you that I am the oldest of poets. I want to sing about the stars, the moon, the flowers, about love, exactly like Sully Prudhomme, like Victor Hugo, or like, before all else, all the poets of all time. I don�t want to be a revolutionary in poetry; I don�t have a poetic doctrine; I don�t have a poetic ideology. I am a poet by vital, biological need, and that is my whole doctrine.

While looking up Neruda’s name, I also stumbled upon something totally different:  a website about exopolitics, which concerns the “political implications of the extraterrestrial presence”. 

As if terrestrial politics weren’t complicated enough.

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I write comic books and novels about grumpy warrior women, eccentric demons, plucky fox girls, and men who can shape-shift into tigers. If a merman or gargoyle shows up, all the better!  To learn more about me, please go here.

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