Why Aren There any Poems in Grayheart and the CatScratch Books?
There are poems in the Dion stories (Wolfwalker, Shadow Leader, Storm Runner, and Wolf’s Bane) because Dion has a poetic vision of the world. She sees people, actions, and her lifestyle more in terms of images and relationships, possibilities, and philosophical rights-and-wrongs, rather than in terms of concrete, action-reaction events, goals, and motivations. The main character (Rezsia) in Grayheart, however, has a more concrete view of the world. Rezsia is goal-oriented, an objective thinker, a practical person, a planner. Where Dion reacts to the moment, dealing with what is instantly before her, Rezsia reacts by thinking ahead, seeing more than the single person or moment. Dion makes emotional decisions; Rezsia makes rational decisions. Rezsia appreciates poetry and music–the images of life, but Dion, like Grayheart, is that poetry. I included no poetry in the CatScratch books, not because of the main character, but because the subject of those books (emotional, physical, mental e
