A Tiger Adrift, a reading

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A Tiger Adrift

A Tiger Adrift is published in Strays and available at the link below or through your local bookstores and libraries.

Strays is a collection of two extended narratives and more than forty love-themed poems, exploring the meaning of romantic love while we have it and attempting to find the healing after its loss. Found within these pages is the short story Gutter Dog, the novelette Ginni, and the poems False Skin, the Boy Who Wore Clothes, and the Black-Wit Reveller.

Author's Note

Reviews

[annie lee]

I really liked this. I think your use of typeface and point changes was integrated seamlessly and intensified the tension. This made me think of "The Life of Pi" and the helplessness the tiger sometimes suffered. I like the cadence of this; it seems to roll like the waves, billow up and down like the swells of the ocean. It does not appear there will be a happy ending for the kitten/tiger. Is that your intention? Or is this a metaphor? Like a fish out of water? Like anyone thrown into a completely alien environment and madly trying to survive? So the happy ending is not a duty of the poem, but the duty of he who struggles. Am I close?

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Minichinz, as always your reviews are spot on. Really, I look forward to them.

read moreThank you, Minichinz, as always your reviews are spot on. Really, I look forward to them.

The whole Life of Pi things is an unavoidable comparison, but not a Tiger Adrift's inspiration. Its inspiration comes from someone who is far more dear to me, dear enough to inspire my poetry. lol. I'm not sure which of us is the tiger.

Will our dear kitten have a happy ending? Who knows? But swim she/he must.

[Pryde Foltz]

Perhaps those icy shores will thaw.

[Dayran]

It reminded me at first of Venus warning Adonais about boars ... but sharks ... they need to keep moving in order to breathe ... kind of puts the pressure on everyone else to keep moving. Sad about the tiger though ... in Alice, at least there was the other shore to swim to. Nice.

[Pryde Foltz]

Oh yes, it is very sad about the tiger, but as the poem goes ... swim little kitten, swim.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ah thank you Jacob! I thought I was being a little too literal with this and thought of the ' Life of Pye' which I have not read nor watched. Thought provoking pice Pryde.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thanks John. Thanks for the read.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Pi even!..........

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, "Life of Pi"

still waiting to see that...

but often we have to drift and survive until we can grow strong enough to roar..

that could have to do with growing up, with getting back health...many applications for the allegory...

really liked this piece.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you and thanks for reading, Jacob. It wasn't inspired by Life of Pi but other events but the similarities are not worth denying.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i figured more behind it...although you did say in the description, "an obvious nod to Yann Martel"

which might lead us in that direction...i'm pretty much for eliminating the descriptions and just letting the readers meet the poem on their own terms..
but that's just me.

[Pryde Foltz]

yeah your right.

[Pryde Foltz]

Oh and the movie is outstanding.

[Luke L]

Lovely! This tiger will be back to f**k up some other animals yet! I like writing about animals

[Pryde Foltz]

Wink. It's not really about a tiger.

[Luke L]

it's my interpretation :p.

[Pryde Foltz]

I added a line about sharks.