Hi everyone,
Meet my friend, CRISTINA BOTTA, who lives in Turin, Italy. I bet she is the only person in Europe who is wearing one of the t-shirts that was designed when David Harrison Elementary celebrated my birthday two years ago. Way to go, Cristina!
Hi everyone,
A good friend of mine lives in Turin, Italy. CRISTINA BOTTA is a gifted poet, writer, and artist. We’ve been communicating for some time now. The other day she posted a poem about a HUG and I asked her permission to post it here as part of this month’s Poetry Challenge. She said I could do it, so here it is. Thank you, Cristina.
Childhood
still a memory
who hugs us,
always a presence
who takes the word
still the future
Of our dreams.
Childhood,
this ghost
infinity.
My thanks to you, Cristina. I enjoy our correspondence and am delighted to add your poem to my blog for January. By the way, you look great in the Kansas City Chiefs shirt!
Hi everyone,
CRISTINA BOTTA, is a good friend who lives in Turin, Italy. She is a multitalented, well-known poet, writer, and artist. We usually exchange notes in French, she because she loves that language, I, thanks to Google Translate.
Cristina recently discovered a French translation of a book called The Book of Giant Stories and asked if I wrote it. I told her it came out in 1972 and was co-published in the United States and the U.K. The following year the book won a Christopher Medal and many translations followed.
Although the artist, PHILIPPE FIX, is French, I told Cristina she might also find an edition in Italian. I think that translation came out the same year as the French one. Both were issued before Cristina was born. I love it when new friends meet old friends of mine.
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