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Author Archives: susan
POETRY: Eternal Universal Noise
Just a start — “Eternal Universal Noise” Oh, but where was that— and why? I heard again the booming sound that men make when they fall. Rivers fork their course with blood; thick and muddled joyless noise to wash the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits” Part II
Hurston’s exposition, in the first sentence, is one of setting, and symbolism and metaphor are subtley rampant within the story. “It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement that looked to the payroll of the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE & WRITING: Voice
We’ve had many long discussions here on the voice of an author and how it is indelibly marked within one’s writing style. While pure fiction does not relate personal episodes of the writer’s life, the experience must exist as a … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Hurston’s “The Gilded Six-Bits” Part I
It’s taken me forever to write an essay on this story by Zora Neale Hurston, because something about it bothered me—not bad-bothered, good-bothered, and it finally came to me late last night: The story is an updated version of Adam … Continue reading Continue reading
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POETRY: And Bad Poetry
Fetal Ignorance is growing within me and with me showing its big belly of doubt. Learning to live, to be, to venture further backward to kindergarten with each new thought. Meeting Barthelme’s Miss Mandible striving for all A’s and yet … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: John Cheever’s The Swimmer
Literature Students, listen up! I feel compelled to warn you that at this point, there have been hundreds of hits on my previous postings regarding Cheever’s wonderful short story, The Swimmer. You can quote from these entries, but please, do … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I can’t seem to read even a four and a half page short story without a notebook handy to scribble in. Ursula K. Le Guin’s story … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Isabel Allende’s And of Clay Are We Created
In class discussion today of this short story of a young girl trapped by a volcanic landslide and a reporter who stays three days by her side, there was one of those moments when the lightbulb glows above your head … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Cheever’s The Swimmer
It looks like schools across America have The Swimmer as Assigned Reading this week; much as Atwood’s Happy Endings was the hot topic back in October. I’ve had more hits from Google, Yahoo and the like on this subject over … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: John Cheever’s The Swimmer (continued)
…A storm comes up, and there are many ways that this could be interpreted. In my view, as Neddy wonders why he loves storms, how it sweeps into a home and up the stairs, and how it always means good … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
The sad saga of protagonist Neddy Merrill in The Swimmer is one that should be made required reading in every marketing major’s course studies before sending one out into the corporate world sport of cross-county swimming. I see here parallel … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Didascalicon
I can’t believe I did this. I just ran out to the barn (my shop) to get Didascalicon because that’s where I left it this evening when I closed. This was the book I peeked into briefly earlier, and the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Blood Meridian
Yes, I finally brought myself to finish it the other day. Herein lies the mystery and meaning, and even after several readings I must go back and read again to fully comprehend it. The key lies in those last dozen … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Again, Blood Meridian
Can’t believe I’m doing this, and just realized that I was. I’ve been down to the last few pages of this book since last night—an easy 20 minute read—and even into this morning, I’m reading no more than a page … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Focus on Blood Meridian
While The Great Lettuce Head focuses on space, I spent 335 pages focused on detail. This is my first reading of Blood Meridian, my first reading of Cormac McCarthy’s work. Maybe for me, my next reading will produce a different … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology