Pocahontas has a MySpace page? (And Poets & Writers has some Matt Sharpe pages)
So I see in next month's Poets & Writers, in which Mary Gannon has a great interview with/profile of Matt Sharpe, that Pocahontas has a MySpace page.
Whodathunkit...We learn her general interests are:
thinking in english, hanging out with my gal-pals, IM-ing, my wireless device, evenings in the cornfields, Johnny, my secrets. Definitely NOT violence or guns or macho men like my father (although I do love my father).
She's blogging too, this is the feed.
And here's some of what Ms. Gannon and Mr. Sharpe have to say about the book:
The speech patterns of the 1600s were something that he wanted to make reference to in Jamestown. "I wanted the book to bear the imprint or have the stain not only of contemporary speech patterns and diction, but also of Elizabethan and Jacobean speech patterns, so I turned to my favorite writer of that period, Shakespeare." The prose in Jamestown combines the rhythms of text-messaging patter with iambic meter, allusions to hip-hop culture and canonical poetry (Wallace Stevens's, in particular) strewn throughout.Language in general—its potential, limits, power, and failings—is a major concern in Sharpe's work. He sees the language barrier between the English and the Algonquians as a model for "the way in which each of us has our own private associations that inform every word that comes out of our mouths. Communication," Sharpe says, "is always an act of translation."