Tuesday, January 16, 2007

News at Eleven: In her wonderful novel The Hearing Trumpet,

the surrealist novelist Leonora Carrington has her 92-year-old heroine muse on her past desire to write poetry:

At times I thought of writing poetry myself but getting words to rhyme with each other is difficult, like trying to drive a herd of turkeys and kangaroos down a crowded thoroughfare and keep them neatly together without looking in shop windows. There are so many words, and they all mean something.

from The Guardian: End of the line

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