Author: cednie

Fantasy – being able to take a poem and identify its form, make some intelligent remarks about its meter, or comment on the use of various rhetorical devices such as Zeugma Anacoluthon Apostrophe! (this...

It’s a very fine book, but my favorite of all sentences in it is at the very end, in the Suggestions for Further Reading: For transcendent afterthoughts on many of these matters, Justus George...

typos silence Tappan Zee into the fog pavilion style lunch room eggplant stew with feta and ciabatta interminable When I walk down the vaulted hallway back to my desk, I imagine myself filling the...

flat, drab, mechanical, anachronistic, archaistic, the language of business platitudes hunting for poetry in strange places the learning of how to do something really well (Gary Snyder) and preferably something domesticated like cooking or...

I worked on a spreadsheet all day. I was a thousand ants. Meanwhile, there’s nothing to figure out. I want the Dark Mother. The expression of negativity and destruction, the extreme expression. Why do...

Struggling. I don’t want to write down anything discursive, narrative, obvious, patented, simple, negative, positive, emotional, hopeful, peaceful … I have so many ways I don’t want to write. I wrote some interesting sentences...

I was interested to read Paula Vogel’s “Playwright’s Note” about The Long Christmas Ride Home. She wrote about the urge to empathy and the urge to abstraction, the “two volitions that underlie all artistic...