Do Giraffes Write Creative Nonfiction?
September 26, 2007
Brevity’s editor is profiled this week on Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle.
Apparently, there are animals involved.
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September 26, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I saw a giraffe once, writing unwittingly in the dirt of the African Savannah. While her upper half worked the crown of a Jacaranda, searching in those upper reaches for a leaf, a vivid blossom, the accidental termite, her lower half, pencil-like and casually deliberate, wrote her life in u-shaped clusters on the dusty tablet beneath. The seemingly abstract marks – sometimes interrupted by a clump of grass, a bone, the footprints of a hyena – were the stories of her days. Gestural, expressive, she wrote about the winds whipping up in late October, the rains that followed in December, then the Wildebeast run of late January – and of instincts: the relentless fear of surprise attack, the quiet hum of constant hunger, the need to procreate.
October 3, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Love that interview, and I agree that ‘Bill’ is not even an option, ever, for someone whose freak flag is flying as high as yours is…