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and read what Ron has to say about my new book from O Books *iduna* - 2003
and thank you Ron for a thoughtful insightful look at my work.
and more later but first...

From the opening lines of Ron's Blog...

*Wednesday, February 04, 2004  
Q: How does one pronounce the title of kari edwards’ new O Books volume?
A: Iduna.
 
Sorry about that.*


you are not the first to say that...so not problem, I missed that in coming up with the title, which by the way came from a title of a journal Friedrich Holderlin was going to start, *which was devoted to the - unification and reconciliation of the sciences with life, of art and good taste with genius, of the heart with the head, of the real with ideal.- 1. but, I like Ron's version, *Iduna,(iduan) if one hunts about the net using wild cards & the like, turns out to be a variant name for Idun, the Norse goddess of eternal youth who married Braggi, the god of poetry. Guardian of the golden apples of youth, Idun was once kidnapped by the storm giant Thiazi, only to be rescued by Loki, who changed her into a nut. Yeah, I like Braggi as the god of poetry too.* this works as well for me, since Loki is a cross-dresser from way back or aleast plays with gender, and Braggi transforms into a nut, with all its multiple implications, of nut= madness... and madness is the one theme of a way to push against to commodification of gender and the body....


1.Holderlin, Friedrich. Selected Poems, and Fragments. Pengiun, London, 1998. this quote was take from the indroduction by Michael Hambuger