Thoughts from an obscure literary life. Your average joe as literary critic, writer, poet, social commentator, cultural observer, barman, wine enthusiast, Irish-Polish American.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Writing, like psychoanalysis, is pain, depression, sadness, thoughts of inadequacy transmuted into meaning and poetry. And so it is like grapes into the wine, we, the vines. Wine is a condensation of the eternal of any year. The tender of the vines brings out the best his labor is able to.
Gandhi tells us to be the change we want to see in the world. I wanted to see a blog on writing. Not necessarily the craft stuff, the things you could learn in a classroom, but the basic matters (and mysteries) of creativity, depth and subject matter.
I am a veteran barman of Washington, DC. My novel, A Hero For Our Time, a modern retelling of Hamlet, is available on Amazon.com. (My thanks to Mr. Lermontov, God rest his soul, for allowing me to nod to his singular classic.)
What makes writing literature? Writing will always be an art form to honor.
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