Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggottis a novelist, essayist and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's Creative Writing Program...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 September 1969
praying
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
demand let-him-go release
She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
character mind important
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
too-much feels knows
I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
different sometimes knows
Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.
love average hands
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.
I prefer true over happy now.
giving-up past able
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
love-is our-love burden
Our love is our burden.
heart personality tools
So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
weight bears plot
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot...
running believe men
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
fall love-is giving
Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
memories water
Memories are like water.