{"id":11569,"date":"2025-09-20T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/or-how-to-write-the-book-of-love-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:30:51","slug":"or-how-to-write-the-book-of-love-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/or-how-to-write-the-book-of-love-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Or, How to Write the Book of Love \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n
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I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial<\/a> technique developed by Gianni Rodari \u2014 the beloved Italian writer whose stories lit up my Bulgarian childhood \u2014 as a creative prompt for poetry, part of the larger binomial two people co-create when their worlds touch each other in a meaningful way. Each week I\u2019d be given two unrelated words and tasked with twining them into a poem. <\/p>\n

Summers end. Worlds tilt away from each other, drift apart, resume their orbit, transformed. This is how the final binomial \u2014 \u201cdust\u201d and \u201clife\u201d \u2014 wrote itself in me, read here by the living poem that is Nick Cave<\/a>. <\/p>\n