friendship is “thinking aloud together”

friendship is “thinking aloud together”

talk it up…

 

 

Samuel Adams (1722-1803) said that friendship,

at its best,

is “thinking aloud together.”

 

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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

Book review: Ethan Frome

not being satisfied with less…

by Edith Wharton

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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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The Eye of the Story…book review

The Eye of the Story…book review

“Each work is new.”

 

 

Book review:

The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews

 

by Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001)

American short story writer and novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner

New York: Random House, 1977

355 pages

 

The Eye of the Story is lush, literate, filled with almost languid richness.

I can only imagine being so well read that I could recognize all of her references to other writers and the vast literature of novels and short stories. I envy the breadth of her engagement with the world of fiction.

I’m more interested in what she has to say about writing.

“We who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination” (p. 134).

“Each work is new” (p. 135). Welty is talking about novels, but this also is true, so true, of poetry. She observes that, in the fiction of her contemplation, “words have been found for which there may be no other words” (p. 137).

“The imagination has to be involved, and more—ignited. How much brighter than the symbol can be the explicit observation that springs firsthand from deep and present feeling…” (p. 139).

“It is through the shaping of the work in the hands of the artist that you most nearly come to know what can be known, on the page, of his mind and heart, and his as apart from the others. No other saw life in an ordering exactly like this” (p. 144).

I find affirmation in The Eye of the Story. Welty declares that writing is an art that uses the literally infinite array of words in sequence to create a spectacular, unique exhibition of what’s in the writer’s mind and in her heart.

“Each work is new.” I believe that each poem is unique. Each engaged reader takes a new step on new ground each time he reads the poem.

The poet opens a new window in her mind each time she takes the quill in hand.

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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

A poem about the right thing

…and the lesser incarnation…

“Vanity”

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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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The Book of Days…part xxxxii

The Book of Days…part xxxxii

The Book of Days

 

The dawn’s early light can be pleasure enough for the whole day.

There are words enough to tell the story of “the temptation of day to come.”

It is my delight to write some of them for your delectation.

 

 

the marks

 

The lunar crescent

   shines through the vault,

their playground…

 

the advent of day

   chases away

      the faint marks

         of the footsteps of the gods.

 

March 4, 2024

we never see them hootin’ and hollerin’…

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

The Wind and the Lion (1975)

heroic, the way it was…(movie review)

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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.

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