What I like best with Dobyns’ essay Deception is its simple and direct style. His text is easy accessible, easy to understand and agree or disagree with. Nothing fancy, no profound bottomlessness which so often is the case in contemporary literary theory. Deception is talking directly to me as a reader and writer, not hiding…
Tag: Best Words
Dear Readers
Thank you so much for all the wise & clever comments to my post on Stephen Dobyns. I appreciated it a lot – very inspiring! I am not in the position to question anything of what you have told me, and do not yet know enough about Dobyns to make any interesting follow-up remarks. At…
Intensifying my life
I’m reading Stephen Dobyns book of essays on poetry; Best Words, Best Order (1996/2003). I enjoy it a lot, but there is this view in the first essay called Deception, that I find rather difficult to understand. In a discussion on the difference between the novel and poetry, Dobyns say: So in my poetry I believe…
For Kim
– who asked for pictures of my books/bookcases I do not think Mrs Woolf would have appreciated it, but it is the truth, and I’d better tell you: There is no door into my new study. Its an open attic, everyone can enter – whenever … At the moment I’m focusing on learning how to write…
sub rosa 