by Marta Maretich | Oct 23, 2014 | The Possibility of Lions, Writing and reading
Michael McClure is an American poet with a career stretching back to the Beat generation. In the attached clip McClure puts aside his tambourine to go the the San Francisco zoo to recite “Tantra 49″, a poem from his 1964 collection Ghost Tantras, to caged lions. The...
by Marta Maretich | Oct 20, 2014 | The Possibility of Lions
Friends and readers of The Possibility of Lions have been contacting me to point out the similarities between the plot of my novella and the recent, tragic events in Ohio where Terry Thompson took his own life after freeing his menagerie of exotic animals. Real life...