Reading
I finished Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son and Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man last night.
I don't know if I can articulate this well, but I think there are fundamental things that these two books share. Maybe it's nothing more than the idea of the outsider/outcast and trying to fit in. But it feels deeper than that. Both good books. Both about a character falling apart.
I'm also in the middle of several books of poems. Hickok's Insomnia Diary, Gluck's Wild Iris, Emanuel's The Dig, and I just started Jane Hirshfield's After.
What are you reading?
I don't know if I can articulate this well, but I think there are fundamental things that these two books share. Maybe it's nothing more than the idea of the outsider/outcast and trying to fit in. But it feels deeper than that. Both good books. Both about a character falling apart.
I'm also in the middle of several books of poems. Hickok's Insomnia Diary, Gluck's Wild Iris, Emanuel's The Dig, and I just started Jane Hirshfield's After.
What are you reading?
posted by Anonymous at 12:51 PM
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Hey Jack! I just was wandering around the net and found your blog. Hope all is going well with you!
I'm reading "Here, Bullet" to see what it is all about and Jane Kenyon's work for my project.
Best,
Amy
Hi, Amy.
Nice to see you around.
What project? Are you working on another degree? Or is this something self-imposed?
I'm working on my MA at Kansas State right now; I should graduate in August. I guess it's been a long while since we've chatted! It's my master's project, I'm looking at CK Williams, Kooser, Kenyon, Pastan, Dunn, & Levine.
I hadn't seen much of you on the web these last few months. . .years? But then I've not been on the workshop boards myself in some time.
Send me an email sometime, if you'd like. And if you happen to come over to Kansas, let me know & we'll fix you & yours dinner!
Congrats and good luck, Amy. Sounds like an interesting project. Six fine poets. What are you trying to learn from them?
And yeah, I've finally come to terms with the fact that I don't really like posting things on the boards, especially public boards.
I'm trying out blogging right now. I have mixed feelings about it, too.
Among other things, I'm worried that it may be getting in the way of what passes itself off as my writing.
You've been doing it for a few years, what's your take on it?
mkaxjitz,
Jack
However, you know, I do get a kick out of posting my rejections on the web.
I wonder what that says about me. Hmm.
Anyway, if I can get enough submissions out, I might just use this as a place to wallow in that, a place to celebrate my inability to discern which of my own poems ought to be sent where.
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