The lady novelist would have liked us to embarrass her by saying that she was a good lady novelist. We did not commit that breach of taste. Art is not compassionate. Implicit also in that primordial, potential pool were the trilobites like unstrung lyres, barracuda like swift steel triggers, and the amoeba which will swallow us. I notice that my spirits are flagging.
Metaphor establishes connections between unlike objects.
If you would like help, you must put your distress call in code. It amuses me to have written a love story. He won the Academy of American Poets Prize in 1967, and the Rhysling Award for Best Science Fiction Poem of the Year in 1992 and 1995. Five of his poems have been nominated for the Nebula Award. Dave's early publications included two limited edition chapbooks from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Ironic Holidays and Les Papillons .