Sunday, August 29, 2010

 

The View From Here: Lynda Barry

In this 8 minute video, Lynda Barry sings Emily Dickinson, recites haiku, explains how poetry smells, and insists that memorizing poetry can keep you alive and well.



Watch it here!

Comments:
Thanks for this, Daniel. That was a very good eight minutes.
 
Lynda, I have wanted to reach across the time and say hello to you ever since I was Production Manager of the Cooper Point Journal the year after you were there, and I found a cartoon in archives of a woman holding a cat with a paper cone over its nose facing another woman saying, "Explain to me again how dressing Norma like a chicken relates to Founder's Day."

I loved that so much. I wanted to publish it, but our editor said that would not be cool since you were then in Seattle selling your cartoons, and I guess she didn't know how to find you and ask permission.

So instead your poem has been blossoming in my mind since 1980.

I memorized it.

Thank you--
Victoria
 

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