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wendy blake TAOPOET
FAQs or Qs that should be FAwendy blake TAOPOET | |
What do you want to know?Are you related to William Blake?My familial mythology, legend, and carefully researched genealogy reveal little of my common lineage with poet and artist William Blake. The Blakes are an old family, the name evolving from Aplake, of Welsh origin, meaning "by the lake," or "son of [the family of] the lake." Rumored to be descended from one of Arthur’s lesser knights of the legendary Round Table, we, all Blakes tracing roots to British Blakes of the decades leading up to the 17th century, may indeed be fictitious persons, so my cousinary attachment to "Uncle William," as Ma and Aunties Lou and Ruthie have come to call him, is moot. Indeed, removing seventeen generations in any direction makes us all cousins to Uncles William, John, Christ(opher). So the hard truth that my ancestor Blake emigrated to Hampton, New Hampshire, five generations before honored William was born makes me little more than another keeper of the name. The short answer is, "no." Where do you live? I live in a wonderful house on a beautiful neighborhood street in a fabulous American city with my husband, two bicoastal kids, and a truly bitchy cat. Why do you write poetry? Because I breathe. Because I think in both linear and non-linear ways using verbal and non-verbal images to define my world. What kind of a question is that, anyway? I will tell you this: I've been writing poetry as long as I've known how to write. My mother tells me that I used to write poems with crayons when I was five. She didn't save any. Just as well. |