From pages 306-307 and the story The Liberation the found poem Bereft.
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Pulitzer Remix Day Twenty-Six
Grief aches the soul. From In the Zoo, and pages 298-299 Requiem was found.
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Pulitzer Remix Day Twenty-Five
Two Women contemplate life, found on pages 284-285 from In the Zoo.
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Pulitzer Remix Day Twenty-Four
From pages 276-277 and the short story Bad Characters comes the poem Emboldened.
The presentation of this entry is different from all the others. Funny story – I was on vacation happy with myself that I’d scheduled ahead till the 24th, with enough posts to ensure a new poem each day would publish on the Pulitzer Remix site. Then my spouse reminded me that we returned home on the 23rd, not the 22nd. And that our flight would arrive late and we’d not get home till almost midnight. And with the time difference, tomorrow posts while it is still today here.
And so, I was SOL and behind a day.
And did not bring my computer, being so happy with myself for being ahead a day (I thought).
And this is where I mention I also didn’t being the source text.
Went to buy the e-book. There isn’t one. (I now have a more tolerant attitude towards the Google book project.)
Discovered it was $5 a minute in the hotel business center computer.
The thought of pecking each letter of each word in on my phone was so not appealing.
One day, knowing this story could get you a win in a poetry trivia game….
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Daniel Shapiro, Part III
Three by Five Presents Daniel Shapiro, Part III
Visit Daniel’s work with the National Poetry Month initiative, Pulitzer Remix, where he and 84 other poets from 7 different countries have posted a new poem each day in April created from text of a Pulitzer Prize winning fiction book.
VAH – Daniel, What books or authors keep you up at night because you can’t put them down?
DAS – The most recent book I read almost all the way through in one sitting was Brian Mihok’s The Quantum Manual of Style [http://www.aqueousbooks.com/author_pages/23_mihok.htm]. It’s a jarring book because it tricks you into thinking it’s funny but then turns heartbreaking. And then it goes back to being funny. I love its deadpan delivery, by the way. Sometimes it reads like a textbook, and then the bottom falls out, and you just keep asking yourself, “What is this guy going to do next that’s better than what he just did?” And then he does it.
VAH – And in a movie about your life and times, who would play you? What would the theme song be, and why?
DAS – I’ve actually written a couple of poems in which actors play me. Ethan Hawke plays the younger, more arrogant version of me. Woody Harrelson plays the more laid-back, present-day me. I picked those actors because I resemble them somewhat. The theme song for the movie would be Coleman Hawkins’ 1939 version of “Body and Soul” or Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five’s 1928 version of “West End Blues.” A key element of the movie would be my continual need to rank everything (especially music and films), and those two jazz tunes are probably the best ever.
VAH – What would your super power be and why that one?
DAS – I would have to go with time travel, if only to fix some of my mistakes. And to see the Velvet Underground in concert.
VAH – Are you a finish the book once you’ve started kind of reader or leave it for another if don’t like the book sort of reader?
DAS – I have left many books once I’ve decided I won’t like them. I don’t think it makes sense to tough it out just to finish a book. I go to the library a lot, and libraries make it easier to start a book and quit on it.
VAH – Tell us what little known fact about you will amaze and/or amuse?
DAS – I once edited a lingerie catalog. My wife tells me I know more about bras than she does. And, as she is with most other things, she’s right.
The final part to our visit with Daniel Shapiro comes at the end of the month. Until then, check out Dan’s poems with the Pulitzer Remix project or a Daniel Shapiro Sampling:
Poem for Tim Buckley’s “Love from Room 109 at the Islander (on Pacific Coast Highway)” published at Lily
Archibald on an Empty Stomach published at Bacon Review
Four Poems published at Dead Mule School
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Pulitzer Remix Day Twenty-Three
Death has feelings as found in today’s poem from the story Bad Characters, pages 266-267.
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Pulitzer Remix Day Twenty-Two
From The Darkening Moon, pages 254-255, comes the poem Evening Woods where the sounds of the night echo.
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Pulitzer Remix Day Twenty-One
Consternation was found on pages 242-243 of the story The Mountain Day. In scanning the pages a particular line caught my attention because it was so very contrary to the flow of the rest of the text on these particular two pages. I knew I wanted to use that line in a literal sense though it referred to a brief, short fall of rain.
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Pulitzer Remix Day Twenty
The Mountain Day brings the poem To be in Love, found on pages 236-237. “To be in love at eighteen? It is like an abundant spring garden…”
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Pulitzer Remix Day Nineteen
From the story The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies comes Dilemma, pages 220-221 of Jean Stafford’s collected stories. In Dilemma find a clue to why a mother earlier was lost in reflection as read in Worlds Away published earlier in April.
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Vicki Hudson 