Valerie Mejer Caso : Edinburgh Notebook
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Color of Blueness in Your Writings
There's a recurring motif in all your booksf of bluness and the color blue. And so there's many ways we could think of this recurring motif. One being the ocean, the sea, the place where from which we extract these creatures that we don't understand and murder them. Or the way sedy wright spoke of your work when she translated it, the sensation is of drowning. The effort is toward ascent. So the sense of both water death an attempt back toward the sky u but blue goes beyond this. I think we get blue intelligence, bluish light, bluish dove wounded in blue. Blue canary. In life, they were blue. And piercing.
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