From: Lisa Peters <lwpeters>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:33:31 -0500

I can answer your question about why I'm writing the volcano manuscript in poetry rather than prose, but you should keep in mind...I've just finished the manuscript, and only just started sending it out to editors. If I were you, I wouldn't look for these poems anytime soon.

I wrote many of the poems in Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up from the passenger seat of our car as my husband and I hurtled toward one mountain range or another out west. The process was so fun, so refreshing, that it launched me in a new direction. I also found I could incorporate more humor in poems than I could in nonfiction prose. The older I get, the more I appreciate humor. But I think the main reason I wanted to write about the volcano in poems was because for me, the science of geology is poetry. They -- geology and poetry -- encourage me to look at the world in a different way. And these days, that is pretty important to me as a writer.

Lisa Peters
Received on Tue 05 Jul 2005 03:33:31 PM CDT