Six-Word Memoirs
- Posted by: danielriley
- on February 15, 2008 at 9:19 am
In Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, editors of storytelling magazine Smith have compiled the condensed life-stories of a wide array of captivating wordsmiths, including Richard Ford, Stephen Colbert, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck Klosterman, Amy Sedaris, and countless others you’ve never heard of.
The collective memoir, published by Harper Perennial, hit shelves last week.
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The light of
a new day
solicits a blackbird
in the care
of a craving,
in the beautiful
darkness of a
sunny concept,
in the songs
of my heart, like
a tender idea
now reflecting
the straw.
Francesco Sinibaldi