This conversation took place online, at the end of June 2009, between the writers Shane Jones and Ben Brooks – both of whom have forthcoming books to be published by NYC indie publishing house, Fugue State Press.
Archive for June 2009
Bear In The House
In Fiction on 29 June, 2009My husband, Josh, couldn’t show up for his own birthday party. He was present at the dining room table all right, but just in body. Even when it came time to blow out his candles, he stared at the kids and me, giving us that vacant what?
“You’re doing the Granddad thing again,” Teddy, our six-year-old, said.
In Defence of Des’ree
In Writing style on 23 June, 2009Here is a beautiful line:
Above the car spends an airplane, and instead of throwing pesticides in the fields, it throws a multitude of butterflies.
Nice, right? It’s from the Wikipedia entry for the song ‘Life’ by Des’ree. It describes, I think, the closing scene of the song’s promotional video. I don’t know.
On Songbirds
In Reasons on 18 June, 2009Fats; a starving rigor; a curious man admires the form of his wife’s curling iron: these are the elements of writing.
An enchaînement of stolen bodies, rearranged; disemboweled ideas; an eye becomes an item, or an index, a frenzied movement of the bergamasca: these are the forms of language.
My task as a writer is that of the mad bird keeper; the pen is the key; release the songbirds from their cages!
Five poems
In Poetry on 15 June, 2009Something To Think About
Such an awful
lot of thought has
gone into this
little poem.
You simply would
not believe how
much thought I have
put into this.
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I’ve Come So Far
In Poetry on 9 June, 2009Consider me
Bereft
At a loss
Stabbing my palm
With the point of my pen
Treading water
Just filling a page