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Kelli Deeth: How do stories and poems come to you?
Elisabeth Harvor: The music of certain lines comes to me—and keeps coming to me—like a line of a song or poem remembered, but it's a beat that isn't consciously from any song or poem I’ve ever read or heard. So this is how a story or poem begins. With poetry, the opening line can sometimes sound like a maxim with self-deprecation in it. Take the beginning of the poem called "I Am A Scientist" which begins with the words Like all paranoids, I am a scientist Dark Cause + x = Predestined Effect, that is, if someone doesn't like someone, namely x and if x = me, then I'm turned into a sleuth in the name of survival... I can't see these lines as the opening of a story, they are too rhythmic, too insistently declarative. Read More | RUSTY TALK INTERVIEWS ELISABETH HARVOR DAVID GROULX SHARON MCCARTNEY RENUKA JAPALAN DAVID HICKEY VANESSA PLACE SHELIA HETI DAVID WHITTON MARIA MEINDL MONTY REID LAURIE GOUGH BONNIE BOWMAN CHRISTIAN BÖK MICHAEL TURNER KAREN SCHINDLER ZACHARIAH WELLS JENNIFER L. KNOX VIVIENO CALDINELLI MADELEINE THIEN KEVIN CHONG COVER ART
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