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- I write novels and make art as a continuing way of discovering myself and the rest of the word. I have travelled the world and published a number of novels.
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Opening a novel
This is the part of the opening chapter to my novel Baudin's Last Breath, published a few years ago. I put it here to start a discussion on 'openings'. All comments welcome, rude ones included!
CHAPTER ONE
NEVER MARRY A SAILOR!
Never marry a sailor. A sailor already has a bride. She'll seep into any marriage and leach away the love. I think my first wife sensed this, deep in the ocean of her innocent heart. Oh she was proud of me. Proud that her husband was a romantic merchant mariner,… Continue
CHAPTER ONE
NEVER MARRY A SAILOR!
Never marry a sailor. A sailor already has a bride. She'll seep into any marriage and leach away the love. I think my first wife sensed this, deep in the ocean of her innocent heart. Oh she was proud of me. Proud that her husband was a romantic merchant mariner,… Continue
Posted on July 29, 2008 at 2:15am —
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This is the cover of the Baudin novel that starts in my blog.
Be Well :)
I am very fond of the sonnet. I've worked myself in quite a habit of writing Petrarchan sonnets lately. The Shakespearian doesn't resonate so well, but I think I shall have to challenge myself to build a respectable body of those as well. I find the forms challenging in a healthy, competitive way. Also fond of villanelles and sestinae. I've been working a little with ottava rima lately. So much of a poem depends on where you begin. If you start with a sonnet, you usually limit yourself to a fairly narrow range of themes. I find that I tend to be more narrative and rhetorical with forms, and especially with the sestina. A villanelle, I believe, really should have smooth enough prosody to be sung or chanted.
Greatest compliment I've had is readers telling me they would never have known the verses were formal. That's a sweet place to be. The form is in control as long as you can see it without looking; the poet is in control when the form becomes/remains invisible to casual observers.
Be well.
David