Interview With Author Terry Tempest Williams...
15 May 2012 Tabard Inn Washington, D.C. Dearest Bonnie: Greetings. Here are my responses to your evocative questions. Many thanks, Terry atsGf/Bonnie Simon: Terry, I love your poetic style of writing. What influences helped you develop it? Terry Tempest Williams: I think style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one’s own life experience. I don’t think in terms of chapters, per se. I think in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure. With this book, “When Women Were Birds,” it is a story about how my mother left me her journals andall her journals were blank. There are twelve blank pages that follow this revelation in the book. That is not a style, but the physical truth. I wanted the reader to feel that same...
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