After several months of intermittent reading and contemplation, I finally finished Jane Hirshfield’s exquisite collection of essays about poetry-writing. I found the closing essay, “Writing and the Threshold Life” particularly profound, or at least, particularly meaningful to me at this point in time. In it, Hirshfield proposes that the writer must enter into liminality–a threshold [...]
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Jane Hirshfield: Nine Gates
Posted in Living, Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged books, Jane Hirshfield, poet, Poetry, Writing on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“My Poet”
Posted in Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged fiction writer, Naeem Murr, poet, Poetry, short story on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a gray winter day, and I’m catching up on my reading, which includes five or six back issues of Poetry. In the July/August 2007 issue, I came across a short story titled “My Poet” by Naeem Murr. It made me laugh so much with its hilarious but loosely accurate characterizations of poets and fiction [...]
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