News at Eleven: Some of her son's bons mots

have made it into her poetry, like the time they were listening to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf together and Alicia [Stallings] kept replying to three-year-old Jason's refrain of "Where's the wolf?" by placing the wolf in various locations--in the forest, in the zoo, under a tree--till the boy, with sublime simplicity, declared: "The wolf is in the music!" There's something quite poetic about that kind of literal-mindedness, says Alicia; poets, like children, have a very literal relationship with language--struck by its strangeness, as if trying to pick it apart for the first time.

from Cyprus Mail: The genius poet

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