On April 8th, 1987,
twenty five years ago today,
the Belgian cement factory town of Villon woke to find dead fish scattered everywhere.
It was festival day for their patron saint, St Woelfred.
An infamous environmental activist dance troupe
scheduled a rally at the same time as the festival,
to protest the cement factory’s decision to lease empty quarries as toxic waste dumps.
Sabotage?
Trick?
Performance piece?
Natural phenomenon?
A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
tells the story of six people
tells the story of six people
winding their way
through each other's lives
over the course of that
fateful day.
What happened when
festival and rally collided?
A True Story.
You can find an interview with Paul Cooper
from New Welsh Review
about the writing of
Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
here.
Also,
a recent insightful review of
On the Side of the Crow
from
can be found
here.
Check out both sites:
a great array
of reviews, essays,
and interviews.
In other news,
April 8th is
the Buddha's
birthday.
I can't say whether that's
the reason things
happened the way they did
in Villon
on that particular day...
but I'm not ruling it
out.
In other news,
April 8th is
the Buddha's
birthday.
I can't say whether that's
the reason things
happened the way they did
in Villon
on that particular day...
but I'm not ruling it
out.
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ReplyDeletenoisy neighbors.