summer time, 114 degrees in the shade. In the school library I came upon a battered book, an anthology, ... taken me decades to return that radiant vision. I came upon her poems when I was twelve or thirteen, and ... 2006 Nonfiction Work Issue 122 Print Share Tweet ...
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social analysts of our time. I’m not here to criticize her or use Virginia Woolf against her. And much as ... civil to each other. She asks about his family. He asks about hers. She once bought him a tie ... I’d like to consider with you how far-flung this is from the roots of the essay. How difficult a time ...
cannot renounce character because, at the very least, it is the expression of the body in time. This is ... down: that incarnation. * We most often talk about nonfiction characters in terms drawn from fiction ... I suspect, because fiction is, by its nature, the more circumscribed entity. Nonfiction is sometimes called ...
over lost latitudes and the merciless blue of endless sea, wave upon wave, crash upon crash. All ... world in 1573. Sometimes I am just the maker of an unfinished map. Once I went to Paris carrying ... twenty-five again, these things will never fit the way they once did. The map I am making is nautical because ...
Dahlberg wrote to me once in a confirmation of my guise. To match his poetry, then, I sewed my heart to my ... sleeve, put on cardboard sandals, and made willing to walk upon the scarlet coals. "I am a tender ... October 1, 1970 Nonfiction Work Issue 19 Print Share Tweet ...
nails; my Ikea furniture wobbles. Perhaps once in decades of writing have I found a structure in a first ... unfold. When I look up, I see clouds—gray and indistinct. Once, I asked a poet, a formalist, Do you take ... might take. This essay deals with structure and literary nonfiction, but the poet’s answer suggests that ...
now upon 47, Morskaya, St. Petersburg, they may catch the p. f. of your first birthday candle-unless ... in time! My wish for him, before he outs that one brief candle: let today in 2899, when Earth sets ... HeT Te651 Y)l CTOJIbKO JIeT! 350 Issue 17 page J. Barth Thursday, January 1, 1970 Nonfiction Work ...
almost reading. At that time I happened upon Because I Was Flesh, which taught me to read again. Soon ... 1, 1970 Nonfiction Work Issue 19 Print Share Tweet ...
Page from Issue 66 Creative Nonfiction Is it fiction-the unbridled conception of character, the ... measured or erratic pulse of a narratioe line, the unperjured distortion of fact? Or, perhaps nonfiction ... , anchored to reality, lashed to what is, objective and categorical? Fact is, creative nonfiction travels ...
Barrie Jean Borich Tuesday, July 22, 2014 Craft Essay We know a favorite nonfiction writer’s voice ... lack of faith, and how we define or undefine family. But what else? 1. Let’s say a nonfiction voice is ... who lived between my childhood and the middle age of my parents. By the time I was a teenager, hippies ...