{"id":236,"date":"2013-06-03T20:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2013-06-03T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:39:41","slug":"poetry-in-polu-texni-beauty-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2013\/06\/03\/poetry-in-polu-texni-beauty-remembers\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in Polu Texni: Beauty Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excellent news for this June Monday: my poem ‘Beauty Remembers’ is now online at Polu Texni<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Read it here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Since the poem was inspired by the tale of Beauty and the Beast, I think this is the time to wax lyrical about how much that fairy tale has inspired and continues to inspire me. <\/p>\n

I was first exposed to the fairy tale through the Disney movie. I was five years old when it came out, and it was the first film I ever went to see at a cinema. I remember me and my friend had to sit perched high on the seats to be able to see the screen. We were mesmerised. <\/p>\n

It was a magical – and, I think, formative – experience. The Disney version of Beauty and the Beast has stayed with me all these years. I’m not ashamed to admit that I still love it. As a geeky brown-haired bookworm, I identified with Belle from the start. It was fabulous to have an animated character who also liked to read and who dreamt of adventures in the great wide somewhere. I still get shivers in the scene where Belle explores the forbidden west wing of the castle – the music, the animation, ah, such magic!<\/p>\n

Later, I found the original fairy tale and loved it too. I was also drawn to other tales of animal transformation and love – The Black Bull of Norroway<\/em> is a fantastic example, with its powerful female hero climbing the glass mountain to get to her love. And I’m a total sucker for retellings or adaptations of Beauty and the Beast or similar tales. Even if I think the adaptations\/retellings are horrible, I’ll enjoy some part of them because hey, it’s Beauty and the Beast!<\/p>\n

Naturally, the theme crops up in my own writing, too. Most notably, recently, in the novel I started during Nano 2008 and finished the first draft of last autumn. (The novel that I should edit properly sometime…) Anyway, it’s inspired by Beauty and the Beast, and is set in a strange city and a realm within that city. <\/p>\n

While I was revising that novel last August, I was so caught up in the beauty\/beast theme that this poem popped out, too. I’m really happy that ‘Beauty Remembers’ is available online now for all to read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excellent news for this June Monday: my poem ‘Beauty Remembers’ is now online at Polu Texni. Read it here! * Since the poem was inspired by the tale of Beauty and the Beast, I think this is the time to wax lyrical about how much that fairy tale has inspired and continues to inspire me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,7],"tags":[23,46,52,12],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dv","category-poetry","category-publication","tag-huzzah","tag-polu-texni","tag-the-power-of-memory","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}