It should not be so hard to write both poetry and fiction. Both arts, after all, make use of the same materials, words and punctuation. Poems...
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My comment is only for the marvelous title of this collection of African Folk tales -- Bury My Bones But Keep My Words. It is what every true writer aspires to -- a dream, a goal for a life's work. To Be Read long after they are around to do the reading.
Thanks for this.
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
mumblipegs, January 19, 2012
A story that can be both gentle and disturbing. When you finish reading, the book must closed quietly, so as not to disturb an old man's life.Bury My Bones but Keep My Words: African Tales for Retelling
mumblipegs, July 2, 2010
My comment is only for the marvelous title of this collection of African Folk tales -- Bury My Bones But Keep My Words. It is what every true writer aspires to -- a dream, a goal for a life's work. To Be Read long after they are around to do the reading.Thanks for this.