In my creative writing classes (decades ago now), we read her "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" as a model. As I'm sure you know, the story is dedicated to Bob Dylan.
Eitzel is one of the most underrated writers of our generation. Not just songwriter, but "writer" period.
In the early 90s, I was just out of HS and naive (or cocky?) enough to think I knew my way around the English language and could get it to bend to my will.
Then I heard "Wish The World Away,' and learned that I didn't know anything.
It's a very different kind of bitterness, though, than that of Crane's "naked, bestial" creature in the desert eating his heart out. There's the bitterness that's self-destructive, and then there's the bitterness to savor and appreciate....
I think it’s both. Stephen Crane and Joyce Carol Oates (who used it for a title) both went to Syracuse. I was in charge of a lecture series named for the former and met the latter.
In my creative writing classes (decades ago now), we read her "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" as a model. As I'm sure you know, the story is dedicated to Bob Dylan.
Eitzel is one of the most underrated writers of our generation. Not just songwriter, but "writer" period.
In the early 90s, I was just out of HS and naive (or cocky?) enough to think I knew my way around the English language and could get it to bend to my will.
Then I heard "Wish The World Away,' and learned that I didn't know anything.
It's a very different kind of bitterness, though, than that of Crane's "naked, bestial" creature in the desert eating his heart out. There's the bitterness that's self-destructive, and then there's the bitterness to savor and appreciate....
I think it’s both. Stephen Crane and Joyce Carol Oates (who used it for a title) both went to Syracuse. I was in charge of a lecture series named for the former and met the latter.
Some deep and torturous waters here. Thank goodness some of us eventually learn how to float and swim.
There are many answers.....
"My Papa's Waltz" is one of my favorite poems. We recite it, dance it, act it multiple times every year.
I asked her why. She said, it’s about the final moments of this young woman’s life. It’s all over now, baby blue.