Saturday, 19 January 2008

• GUD (pronounced "good")

  http://www.gudmagazine.com/vault/2/Jamie+Hawkins%2527+Muse

   

  Here is a review for "Jamie Hawkins' Muse" by Vanessa Gebbie.

  The story is a mix of excellent writing and subtle references to embalming techniques--interesting enough of itself--but combined with the main character's zest and zeal to capture the elusive and exotic butterfly (in this case, poetry/the muse), the story takes on new meaning. The irony is this: the life of poetry is discovered in the death of the body, and worse, the muse Jamie so ardently seeks is only summoned when a 3 yr old victim of asthema shows up. In the death of youth is found the life of the eternal muse that speaks to each of us in time.

  The story brings to mind that sometimes life, creativity and our muses are discovered in the unexpected, unimaginable, and most unlikely of places. We'll never know of those places until, like Jamie, we follow our hearts to dead bodies pulsing with creative life.

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