An Exhilarant Attentiveness (2)
By Cynthia Hogue. In the violent first decade of the 21st century, I cannot stop considering ways a complex, artistic mind approaches the phenomenon of violence. I’ve brought this obsession to class and workshop discussions of poets like Dickinson and Stevens, for example, poets who aren’t the first to come to mind when we […]
A Spy In the House of Love
By Marcia Aldrich. I wrote a scene for an essay called “The Mother Bed,” and I return to it repeatedly, involuntarily. Writers aren’t supposed to repeat themselves. The assumption is a writer works through the emotions of a scene and then lets it go. Whoever developed this theoretical ideal didn’t grow up in my […]