Throdizzle — I just got a chance to look at this wrap-up, and I wanted to say I very much enjoyed working with you this nonfiction unit. I think you’re doing some really great work — you’re pushing at my own aesthetic (arid? I’d prefer spare perhaps; but you raise good questions about pretension) in a really exciting way. I love what you’re doing with language, too. I’m reading Walt Whitman for another class right now and that bodily gladness, that effusive love of rich, tremendous words reminded me a little of you.
I want to return to the seeds of that discussion that cropped up in workshop a few weeks ago — whether or not prose (or poetry, I suppose) should be challenging for the sake of being challenging. I think we could swing back to Annie Dillard here too, which after reading your reflection I want to discuss with you as well. Let’s talk writing again soon.
(In other news, I thought you’d be proud to know that I’m incorporating my newfound understanding of the word “counterpoint” in my recent thesis work!)
Throdizzle — I just got a chance to look at this wrap-up, and I wanted to say I very much enjoyed working with you this nonfiction unit. I think you’re doing some really great work — you’re pushing at my own aesthetic (arid? I’d prefer spare perhaps; but you raise good questions about pretension) in a really exciting way. I love what you’re doing with language, too. I’m reading Walt Whitman for another class right now and that bodily gladness, that effusive love of rich, tremendous words reminded me a little of you.
I want to return to the seeds of that discussion that cropped up in workshop a few weeks ago — whether or not prose (or poetry, I suppose) should be challenging for the sake of being challenging. I think we could swing back to Annie Dillard here too, which after reading your reflection I want to discuss with you as well. Let’s talk writing again soon.
(In other news, I thought you’d be proud to know that I’m incorporating my newfound understanding of the word “counterpoint” in my recent thesis work!)