Comments from Myrna Kostash, Frog Lake Reader

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Q: Who or what particularly influenced you in writing The Frog Lake Reader?

A: I didn’t so much write it as compose it, arranging in a dramatic narrative all the different – and contradictory – voices that have told the story from eye-witnesses to today’s poets and fiction writers. I was influenced by all their voices but behind them lay the reading I had already done along the way: Rudy Wiebe’s Temptation of Big Bear, Andy Suknaski’s Wood Mountain Poems, Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners.

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