… and meaning, and our role is parallel to the narrator’s. We come to share in the odd detective game: not to discover … shapes the story and presents those events to his audience. In such later works as “In the Miro District,” … For the interplay between “history” and “discourse” also reflects the action of the narrator’s own imagination …
Poetry
Old Song Praised be friends. Praise enemies. Praise the dark above. Praise hangovers. Praise cigarettes. The vulture and the dove. Praise all music. Praise the harp. And the amplifier’s buzz. Praise the days we’d live forever. And loneliness. And love. …
… youth and the ways in which those experiences helped us to come to terms with our heritage. The urge to look back on … who graduated from college in the early 1950’s, there also were new voices in the land and new forces astir. By … later that the lectures “were given before unsegregated audiences and they were received in that spirit of tolerance …
Essays
… writes in “Out on Bail,” one of eleven linked stories that comprise his 1992 masterpiece Jesus’ Son . “When I realized … codicil, that maybe he will be by the time we read him, is also correct. Here we see the true transference that … which I purposely held off reading for a few years after he died in 1988. I once felt about Carver the way I have come …
… with her, but I regarded her, naturally, as a very wise, competent editor.” Carruth’s correspondence with Kohler is … drive men and women / to the fields where they can only die.” This obsession with the inequalities of the world … Winter 1977 “ The Opposing Concepts of Spontaneity and Expediency in Improvisation ,” Spring 1985 “ Ovid, Old Buddy, I …
… only for a half day in their married life had Coot been completely in her good graces. The backseat fire burned … Ouida’s house, her old family home. After Ouida’s father died, Ouida and her mother (who died shortly afterward) had come home to live with Aunt …