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Breakfast in the Fine Company of Morning Glories
Created on 2001-10-01 12:05:55 (#358410), last updated 2007-02-14
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Basic Info| Name: | Jewelweed |
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| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Website: | Leaves of Jewelweed |
BioBiography:
Poet, bibliophile, and lover of life, I am the enchantress and sole resident of the mysterious island of Aiaia, where I comb the hair of mermaids, spin straw into gold, and cast my lustrous hair out of windows for princes to climb.
Okay, okay.
I am actually a Boston-based poet with a strong interest in mixed-media painting, the book arts, keeping notebooks, and prowling the universe. I am quite partial to dark chocolate, thunderstorms, and Christopher Marlowe. My favorite scents are Rouge Hermes and Houbigant.
Technical writing puts grits on my table, but other than that I have no business plan whatsoever other than getting out on my bike and experiencing joy whenever possible. This is my web journal.
Artistic Statement:
As a writer, I love intricacy, and I love to recast my work as I go along. For me the process is what makes the work interesting. Lately I have become interested in saving different versions of my poems and finding meaning in the progression, in what is lost and saved, how things transform, and what again rises to the surface.
Once upon a time, I discovered that the world was a living organism whose eternal goal is happiness. For me, everything began right there.
Favorite quotes:
"In my book, poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so."
--C.D. Wright
"I can only suggest you do your best to banish anxiety, preferably with a glass of champagne, and lay yourself open to the moment when happiness becomes irresistible."
--John Mortimer
“Start with your identity, which is a combination of your assets and what your friends mean when they discuss ‘the trouble with you,’ polish that, and you have style.”
--Quentin Crisp
"Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea."
--Mina Loy
"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."
--Dorothy Day
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