Hi! Here to share some things I've been taking in this week. I've been thinking a lot about place-- the places we inhabit, and the places we make in our minds. I nearly swallowed whole the book On Moving, by Louise DeSalvo. The author tells the stories of a number of writers' relationships with relocating themselves, claiming at the start that moving has effects that run the gamut from stimulating to crushing. Some of the moves she covered were of the negative variety, but it struck me that those writers were fleeing something that couldn't be fled--Elizabeth Bishop, whose poem
Lately #2: Place, Mind, Memory
Lately #2: Place, Mind, Memory
Lately #2: Place, Mind, Memory
Hi! Here to share some things I've been taking in this week. I've been thinking a lot about place-- the places we inhabit, and the places we make in our minds. I nearly swallowed whole the book On Moving, by Louise DeSalvo. The author tells the stories of a number of writers' relationships with relocating themselves, claiming at the start that moving has effects that run the gamut from stimulating to crushing. Some of the moves she covered were of the negative variety, but it struck me that those writers were fleeing something that couldn't be fled--Elizabeth Bishop, whose poem