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July 5, 2009

…but the need still stays for the first universe. The one we leave, return to, leave again, into the light, away from the light, and we call it a life.

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“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” —Mary Oliver
 

How do you find and work with literary rock stars and transform fledgling, genius authors into cash machines for your agency and your reputation?

In Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood wonders if “all writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep-down by a fear of and a fascination with mortality.”

At least at one point in each of our lives there is a dramatic pause, a rest in the score while we look around for the coda.

June 25, 2009

And then the cutting news that where you were really needed with your well-read history was in the library. The apparent dismay on your closely-shaven face.

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June 11, 2009

A human-cat hybrid experiment was deemed a failure, and the essentially human-looking ‘products’ have been assigned to federally funded caretakers to be looked after—but they tend to escape.

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June 4, 2009

We brave the storms of our days, if we’re lucky, with conversations. Hours unroll dawn and dusk and often what is revealed, what remains—despite centuries and oceans dividing the landscape of time—is the same.

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