Dodici Azpadu
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December 27, 2015

NB: If you live in Albuquerque, NM and environs and would like to sign up for either of my writing courses, please register at University of New Mexico Continuing Education/Osher LifeLong Learning. Craft of Creative Writing (everything except poetry and screen writing) begins on February 1, 2016, 1:00-3:00 p.m., for six Mondays. The Joy of Poetry begins on Tuesday, February 2, 1:00-3:00 p.m. and runs for six Tuesdays. Both are workshop style, based on participant mss. To register contact www.dce.unm.edu. Email me if you would like more information. Class size is limited to 10 participants.
I'm experimenting with a page to write about books I've been reading or conversations about writing that I have with myself and others. I'm seldom current; I often find myself rereading or preferring books that were not written in the United States. The longer breath line of French or Spanish (in translation) appeals to me, as does the greater flexibility in ways to tell stories, or not tell them. Novels coming out of the Near East also share this flexibility. This will be needing specifics. So I promise to read more systematically, noting titles and correct spelling of author names. For example, a used copy of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune came my way. Eliza (the titular daughter) is about to stow away on a ship from Chile to San Francisco in order to be with her lover. I hope the novel is not going to veer into a romance/adventure story. Someone write me an email to warn me off if that is the case.
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  • Welcome
  • FICTION
    • TRACES OF A WOMAN
    • LIVING ROOM
    • SATURDAY NIGHT
  • POETRY
    • Wearing the Phantom Out