Category Archives: On Writing
How ought a writer to act?
By Way of Introduction… from “The Best Times: An Informal Memoir,” by John Dos Passos We were sitting around one evening at Moskowitz’s down on the Lower East side in New York. It must have been during Prohibition days because … Continue reading
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Notes on Writing: A Footnote, a poem
language itself doesn’t unfold when poetry is unfolded it is a looking into, as opposed to an opening up of, an exploding this poem is a footnote to that poetry the agent him/herself is the antecedenter the thing that the … Continue reading
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Notes on Writing: Abstract vs. Concrete (vs. Abstract)
Either begin with A) a grand statement (not so seemingly grand in its reading so much as in its writing), like “Life unfolds…,” (the philosophical import of the word Life), or B) a descriptive passage, which will probably follow the … Continue reading
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