Interviews & Posts Tagged ' biography '

• July, 2009 The Architecture of Persona: Steven Price Writes Houdini

  Tags: biography, Canadian poetry, Harry Houdini, novel in verse, poetry
  Published in Interviews

  

  “I didn’t want to just hit the peaks of his life, I wanted to hit a number of the troughs too, small moments that aren’t necessarily talked about or discussed or described in the biographies but that he, of course, experienced. They tend to be incredibly important to us as individuals. Just that flicker of sunlight on the grass that you remember from your childhood, which means nothing to you except it’s such an extraordinarily warm, protective moment. Houdini would have had these too.”