tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post8617339713373032563..comments2024-03-28T02:54:32.745-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: Celebrating the REAL Alice's BirthdayTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-58554538638480449372009-05-12T02:09:00.000-04:002009-05-12T02:09:00.000-04:00Cody Walker, the author of that post, is a good fr...Cody Walker, the author of that post, is a good friend of mine - he's a fine poet, has a great sense of humor, and he's as kind & bright & creative a person as you could ever hope to meet. How wonderful to see you link to his work in the Kenyon Review - and what a small world it is, Tricia!Julie https://www.blogger.com/profile/12811523890920763782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-32646488207917059572009-05-04T11:51:00.000-04:002009-05-04T11:51:00.000-04:00nice post. I love the Alice photographs; I always...nice post. I love the Alice photographs; I always show them when I teach Alice. Really the books are haunted by death, especially by the predator-prey relationship. But also Alice's own death--she imagines that if she continued to shrink she'd go "out, like a candle." That's a pretty scary image...Libbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406720496767981522noreply@blogger.com