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Mneme
Interesting you should mention Dorothy Porter. I am going to read her. The person who suggested I consider presenting these as poetry had assisted her, I think even on that very verse novel. I think either prose or poetry can work for this, perhaps both. But you can imagine how difficult it is for this Libran too. ;-)
posted by
Azur
on May 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM
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Re: Re: letters I know that you can connect them into a story Good luck
Dorothy Porter used the verse novel form - I rather liked it (but I'm sure you've come across her already).
posted by
mneme
on May 28, 2009 at 10:04 PM
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A or B would work equally well for me - though the brief form lends itself to poetry. Never ask a Libran what she thinks lol.
posted by
mneme
on May 28, 2009 at 10:01 PM
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Re: letters I know that you can connect them into a story Good luck
kabu, yes. But how? This was the question I asked myself. I think with the right selection and sequence. Thank oyu
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 2:06 PM
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Re: letters = thank you Ririr0322
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 2:04 PM
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Re: There's already poetry in the letters -- hints and allegations if you will.
"little hints that remind them of their own lives, or make them wish such interesting things could happen to them." Yes, and our unlived lives.
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM
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Re: Thanks Tap. I like the fun one can have with layout of letters
Some can be set out in a poetic form too.
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM
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Re: Sam.
Thank you. You spur me on with this.
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 1:59 PM
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Re: And war love letter censors .
Benzinha, I think what surprised me is that they would not have to be convoluted. He kept reading outbits and saying it was poetry. However I think an issue for me is that where they might be a surprise in the fiction section, they may have a tiny readership in the poetry section. As a mother trying to make her way, poetry is the tougher route. And I think people can follow the story, of letters found
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM
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Re: Azur Definitely a novel of letters. Talion, I am leaning this way
Yes, I think there is a voyeuristic feeling in reading other people's letters. And i think that letters while from the heart, are still a creation or fiction
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM
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Re: My answer has to be D Thank you Sinome
I just wrote a little more about this on the tail end of a comment to you. It does raise an interesting question about the intention of writing.
posted by
Azur
on February 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM
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letters I know that you can connect them into a story Good luck
posted by
Kabu
on February 9, 2009 at 9:06 PM
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letters
posted by
riri0322
on February 9, 2009 at 3:27 PM
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There's already poetry in the letters -- hints and allegations if you will.
They are powerful in what they don't say. It's like the white space on a page that forms a silhouette around lines of words. So I vote for the letters, all the things readers look for - romance, mystery, little hints that remind them of their own lives, or make them wish such interesting things could happen to them.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 9, 2009 at 5:55 AM
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Voting for letters, though I do believe that you have the ability to make any changes necessary to make them poetic.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM
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I am voting for letters! They are very special to me and I have always had them etched in my mind as a letter! I think this would be a fabulous book! sam
posted by
sam444
on February 8, 2009 at 3:48 AM
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And war love letter censors .
What Talion said. They are letters, why try to convolute them into something else?
I love novels as letter exchanges or messages left in holes in trees or on bathroom stall walls, or wherever the treasure hunt takes one.....on discussion boards, listservs and blog comments.......on a tshirt made just for one lover's eyes......on billboards like many are doing now. Or just using ribbons tied to fences to signal something, red=lusting after you....dunno
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benzinha
on February 7, 2009 at 11:41 PM
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Azur
Definitely a novel of letters. There's an odd intimacy about these posts, as if they weren't meant for my eyes. Maybe this is how NSA agents felt.
posted by
Talion_
on February 7, 2009 at 8:09 PM
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My answer has to be D, because though the letters were very poetic at times they were not , even in the freer forms, poems per say but comunications to whomever. They are great as a collection of letters or say..."words from the heart" but a poem to me has to be writen as such . Those letters though beautiful tender renderings, were more poetic prose.
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Sinome
on February 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
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