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The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in Twenti por Tom Grimes

The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems por H. Bruce Franklin (ed.)

Stubborn light: A collection of writings from the second decade of the Sun (The best of the Sun)

No Country for Old Men por Cormac McCarthy

Mules of Love: Poems (American Poets Continuum Series,) por Ellen Bass

Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project (New Writing Viewpoints, 1) por Anna Leahy

Myth: A Biography of Belief por David Leeming

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Etiquetaspoetry (231), fiction (140), biography (58), poets (50), short stories (47), spirituality (45), reference (44), religion (42), literary criticism (41), memoir (30) — ver todas as etiquetas

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GruposArt is Life, INFP, Modern Poetry 2007 (BGSU)

Autores favoritosJames Agee, Richard Brautigan, Louise Erdrich, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodore Roethke, James Wright (Favoritos partilhados)

Sobre mimI'm a teacher and writer. I teach Literature and Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and I am the author of the novel THE SECRET OF HURRICANES.

For the record, I am not the author of the beaded handbags books or the novel, A SEASON OF ACCEPTANCE. I knew I should have kept my middle initial when HURRICANES came out, but I let my editor talk me out of it. Now people must picture me creating artful handbags during turbulent storms.

I am an INFP (if you believe in such things and if this kind of information is helpful to you in explaining who I am). I am quiet and generally shy and love solitude. Thus I don't know how I ended up being a university teacher, dealing with hundreds of students a year. Somehow it works out. It bothers me not at all to lock myself in a room for hours and read or write. I am curious (about almost everything). I still read the NEW YORKER, although it will never publish anything that I write. I read THE SUN. It publishes some of what I write, and turns some of it down, too. I live my life through feelings: As Theodore Roethke said, "We think by feeling. What is there to know?" I think the most important and powerful aspect of life is LOVE. I try to be authentic in everything I do.

Born January 24, 1956, I am an Aquarian. Now in my 50s, I feel at once the wise woman and the mischevious child. Even as a child I felt simultaneously old and young. I can be open to change and yet fiercely protective of my ideals.

I was born in Corona, California but spent most of my life in Eastern North Carolina. I grew up and married in Jacksonville, NC, moved to Greenville, NC in my thirties to go to college, and then moved to Ohio to study creative writing. I received my MFA in Fiction writing in 1989.

I used to say that I read for enlightenment and not for entertainment. But now I think everybody just has a different idea of what's entertaining. I like to be touched deeply or perhaps set on fire by what I read. When I write, I try to touch the reader (yes, and set the reader on fire, too). I believe writers and readers must be dismantled by going through a spiritual crisis. By spiritual what I mean really is a search for authenticity, the self: the kind of search undertaken by great artists such as William Blake, Mark Rothko, Frida Kahlo, John Berryman, James Wright, and Theodore Roethke. When we are put back together and order is restored, we are new (wiser) people.

I am particularly interested in a possible connection between art and mental illness. Ernest Becker's DENIAL OF DEATH explains a great deal to me about why some people create. In addition, the poet and university teacher Gregory Orr in his book POETRY AS SURVIVAL explains how making art helps us to give order to our lives and is thus beneficial to our mental health. A great deal of what I write is about suffering and redemption. I don't think redemption is a one-time happening; we experience it practically daily in dozens of ways, big or small. The literary term "Epiphany," for me, is an awakening to life and its choices.

I have recently started making videos at home and at my university. The classroom videos help the students tackle questions about their creative lives and help them explore literature. My YouTube channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ther...

In addition to THE SECRET OF HURRICANES, I've had stories published in journals and magazines such as THE SUN, SULPHUR RIVER LITERARY REVIEW, and HUNGER MOUNTAIN.

Sobre a minha bibliotecaThe books I am listing reflect both my personal and professional interests. This is a task ongoing and should take several weeks to complete. I own several poetry collections because I find poetry puts me in the frame of mind to write. I also teach a course in Modern Poetry at Bowling Green State University. I collect biographies, journals, and letters of writers and artists because I'm hungry to know more about the people who create art. I am also interested in children's literature with a dark slant, such as Gag's MILLIONS OF CATS, which I checked out of the school library millions of times when I was a child and the more recent FOX by Margaret Wild. Finally, I own many books about religion, mythology, fairy tales, and spirituality because I'm interested in the search for meaning through the ages.

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A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry por J.P. Seaton

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Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence por Andrew Juniper

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Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans por Koun Yamada

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Poems of the Masters China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sun Dynasty Verse por Red translator Pine

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Happy Thanksgiving, late but the wish is still there. I spend Thanksgiving at Hopewell House, that is the hospice home that I volunteer at. I was with a 93 old woman when she took her last breath, her death was both peaceful and pain free. Even so it was a powerful experience a sense of awe and mystery. The most basic thing, existence, no one can explain why existence exists, then it ends. As often as I see it, ending, it still moves me. It's not sadness, though at times I have felt especially for people that I loved and cared about, but some other feeling that I don't have a name for. I was moved yesterday yet I struggle to find the words to describe the experience.
Michael

publicado por michaelbartley às 3:42 pm (EST) em Nov 27, 2009

Greetings Ms Williams! Please excuse my delay in replying to you. I requested to 'friend' you because we have similar taste in reading, judging from the books you have entered on LT. Yes, few writers can match Capote's skillful use of the language. Pearson, McCullers, Nordan, O'Connor, Wolfe, Portis, Percy, Welty are other Southerners I never tire of reading.
Take care and best to you!
I look forward to reading 'THE SECRET OF HURRICANES' soon.

publicado por rabornj às 2:34 pm (EST) em Oct 23, 2009

Hi Theresa, it's been awhile since I wrote you, just re read your last reply to me, I hope that you and your husband are coping with your husband's father passing.
I have a new volunteer job, I am a mentor with a high school student helping her with the college admission process. I started working with her, Rachel, last spring which was her junior year. My job is to help choice the colleges she was to apply to, then help with the admission process. Rachel is a very impressive young woman, she speaks Japanese, Spanish, and is studing Latin. Has 4 point GPA and scored very high in her SAT. She wants to go to Sanford or Duke! Anyway yesterday I went over the essay required for the admission process. It was very rewarding to help her write this essay. To encourage her to think more about what she wants to say and to explore new ways to say them. To get her to explore why she is interested in being the student council president, she was electd, to write about why she ran and wanted to do this. To encourage her to find her voice and to feel confident in her voice. I am very excited to watch this process, sort of a nice balance to hospice. To be part of the process of becoming a adult and the process of leaving this existance. I am not sure she will get in either Sanford or Duke, very hard schools to get in, only 10% that applicy get in. But she will get into a very school. What is so exciting about her, she wants to be challeged and pushed. The first time I meet her I thought I am meeting a future president of the US! One extra story, she has huge test anxity, so before the SAT test I give her some DVDs of the Marx brother movies, to relax her. She is a big fan now
Michael

publicado por michaelbartley às 6:15 pm (EST) em Aug 14, 2009

Noticed you liked Ice Storm, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a dysfunctional family and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

publicado por cmtusa às 5:59 pm (EST) em May 10, 2009

i am glad to hear from you. I also made my way onto Facebook because everyone said I should.....I am a poetry teacher and author of Poetry Unplugged and Silly Kitty. I
am a fairly new teacher/writer who began writing in 2002 at the age of 55. At that time I returned to college and I took all the writing classes.
Hope to hear from you.
sincerely,
irene brodsky
Chayarochel@aol.com

publicado por CampusCoed07 às 5:58 pm (EST) em May 5, 2009

Theresa, I have made my way onto Facebook and am learning my way around. Just thought I would let you know. Hope to see you over there. Mary Beth

publicado por mmignano11 às 1:20 am (EST) em Apr 21, 2009

Dear Theresa,

I do not ALWAYS (Hmm. Ego?) have interesting or amusing sayings hanging off my lips.
Thanks though for your thoughts about/of me.

WHY?

I am much more the maths/science guy who loves poetry and cartoons.
I have just been gently reminded by a PAW on my leg, I also love CATS.

Guido.

publicado por guido47 às 12:47 am (EST) em Mar 11, 2009

Hi Theresa, How long were you there and did you get to see much of Mass while you were? I moved from Mass to SC 3 years ago and the thing I miss most is Cape Cod!

publicado por steveb189 às 6:24 am (EST) em Feb 27, 2009

Thanks for contacting me, Theresa. I won't call myself a 'Kennedy Lover'; however I am from Mass. and have been interested in the JFK assassination and the various connections it has led me to... Presidential History, Organized Crime in America, Cuba, Watergate, how "history" is written, how we "know what we know", Civil Rights, etc. Regarding Art; I have interests in Illustration, Drawings of all types, and various artists for some time. I hope to take part in your group comments in the future.

publicado por steveb189 às 12:03 pm (EST) em Feb 26, 2009

Thank you for starting such a wonderful group, Theresa. I came across Art is Life only recently, but already feel right at home.

publicado por mountebank às 3:04 pm (EST) em Feb 25, 2009

Greetings

Merry Christmas , Seasons Greetings , Happy Hannukah , Joyeux Noel , Happy Kwanzaa , Yuletide Blessings , Peace on Earth and Blessings from Sacred Mother Earth.

May this holiday season inspire one and all to elevate their souls to greater things. May we all sip lifes sweet moments as we celebrate the coming of the New Year for with it comes the hope for a brighter tomorrow.

I thank all who have touched my life this past year , for friendships and acts of kindness are the nectar that nurtures ones spirit and sustains ones soul. Know that your kindness has allowed my inner self to swim in an ocean of light. The singing of your heart has resonated positively with me and inspired me to greet each day with brilliance.

My wish is for the New Year to bring all who read this peace , love and harmony. May you create a path of light where earthly treasures abound and may you awaken to your true purpose as you open your soul to a new world of guiding wisdom. The greatest gift you can give during the holidays is a warm smile , a loving embrace and an outstretched hand. Share those things not only with loved ones but with all humankind and together we can make the New Year one of bliss , beauty and love profound.

Merry Christmas , Seasons Greetings , Happy Hannukah , Joyeux Noel , Happy Kwanzaa , Yuletide Blessings , Peace on Earth and Blessings from Sacred Mother Earth.

Yours in Holiday Spirit
Micheal Teal
The Ancient One
http://theancientone.gaia.com

publicado por theoldman às 8:39 am (EST) em Dec 24, 2008

Hi, Theresa.

publicado por JMatthews às 6:46 pm (EST) em Jun 10, 2008

Theresa, thank you for your kind note. I was really happy to find the group. I share your interest in art and mental illness as I have been a family therapist for over 25 years, and have used art often as a medium for certain clients, particularly children, but also adults, to express what does not come easily in words. So, along with books, we share quite a lot. I look forward to further contact when you return.

Ferris

publicado por hemlokgang às 9:42 am (EST) em May 28, 2008

If you missed the 4 hour PANGEA DAY event last Friday please catch the highlights at pangeaday.org ~~~~~I'm sure you will find it worthwhile! Esta

publicado por Esta1923 às 12:12 pm (EST) em May 14, 2008

Better late than never!

Sean

publicado por Sean_Nighbert às 8:47 pm (EST) em Apr 21, 2008

HI Theresa, yes that a picture of your truly on my profile

publicado por michaelbartley às 10:48 am (EST) em Feb 2, 2008

Theresa, I wanted to share with you a moment of great sucess with a 8th grade US history class I do volunteer work for. This class while it does have some bright students, wasn't engaging with the topic. Which is the U.S. constituton, they just didn't seem to at interested. This is my 3rd year voluntering with this teacher, and the other times the kids were very interested. I asked the teacher if I could talk about my experiences in Vietnam, I was a medic, to show how government decisions can have a huge impact on a person's life.
I told them about giving a bed bath to young man that had no arms or legs. I still see his face in my memory. The students were really focused on what I was saying. I really felt that I got through to them, at least for that one class. They started thinking how the outside world can have a very powerful impact on their lives.
Michael

publicado por michaelbartley às 3:35 pm (EST) em Feb 1, 2008

Thanks for your warm welcome to Art is Life. I look forward to some interesting discussion!

Terri

publicado por teelgee às 12:39 pm (EST) em Jan 27, 2008

Hi Theresa--

Glad you didn't mind being added to my interesting library list. Loved your comment that reading poetry puts you in the frame of mind for writing. Am always inspired and amazed by how poets can write so richly with just a few words.

Looking forward to reading a copy of your book!

publicado por fallaspen às 12:38 pm (EST) em Jan 24, 2008

Keep warm! Our power went out for three days several winters ago, and we heated the house from the fireplaces, so I know what you mean. It really made me understand why people in previous centuries built such small rooms in their houses.

publicado por margad às 12:11 am (EST) em Jan 22, 2008

Theresa, have you read Elizabeth Cook's Achilles? It's a deceptively slender book with a lot packed into it. I'm almost a third of the way through it, and I just had to recommend it to you. Vivid, lushly poetic prose full of sensual terror.

publicado por margad às 3:05 pm (EST) em Jan 21, 2008

I see you've added Tobacco Road recently. I am very interested in what you think of it. I've written a review here. Not my best, but I seem to have gotten more from this book than most who read it and I wonder if I'm on the right track.

publicado por geneg às 1:45 pm (EST) em Jan 16, 2008

Theresa,

Hope you don't mind that I added your library to my list.

Slainte!

Sean

publicado por SeanLong às 8:13 am (EST) em Jan 7, 2008

Hello Theresa, I haven't written or visited yourlibrary site for a while, but I wanted to take a minute to wish you and your family a Happy Holidays! I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas and great 2008. I am looking forward to having the next 4 days off, to attempt to get some serious reading done. It seems that the books I want to read grown faster then the books I've read. On Christmas I will be at Hopewell House, the hospice center I work at. I am looking forward to that experience.
Michael

publicado por michaelbartley às 6:43 pm (EST) em Dec 21, 2007

I love your blog/website, Theresa. It was so much fun browsing your books - I must read Arnold Wilson's Folktales of Iraq! I like the conciseness of your blog entries. They're nuggets of insightfulness that make me wonder about things. With so many blogs, I'll get interested in an entry, but then quit reading after a few sentences. It's just so hard reading quantities of text on a computer screen.

publicado por margad às 8:04 pm (EST) em Nov 17, 2007

Hello Theresa I hope you are well and enjoying life. Yesterday I got a lesson from an hospice patient about being in the now. We were talking about what she was discovering what's important and what use to be important is no longer important. She then looked at bug in the window and said that is what is important. I had this real sense of being in the now with her. Of sharing her sense of now of taking to moment to see the moment. The problem is as soon as try to explain or exam it that sense of now is lost.
Michael

publicado por michaelbartley às 6:16 pm (EST) em Nov 5, 2007

Glad I could be of help. I hope you're doing well. Cheers, Jim

publicado por JMatthews às 11:20 pm (EST) em Oct 28, 2007

Thanks for the invitation to join your art group, but I'm trying to keep my group involvement at a minimum at this time. I appreciate you thinking of me though.

Katherine

publicado por katylit às 11:19 pm (EST) em Oct 22, 2007

Yes Theresa, you are correct in assuming that I did not enjoy The Time Traveller's Wife. I thought it was vastly overrated - but I do not generally like best-sellers or main stream writers. I sometimes find it inexplicable why some novels 'make it'

I will order and read your book "The Secret of Hurricanes. After reading Margad's comments on Reading Compared, my interest is piqued. It might be a good sequel to 'The Theory of Clouds'!!

Nice to hear from you again.

Cheers, Karen

publicado por kiwidoc às 10:33 pm (EST) em Oct 22, 2007

I am well, thank you; reading my poetry at Cal State - Northridge this weekend. Hope you are also well. Jeffrey

publicado por southwestpoet às 9:22 am (EST) em Oct 22, 2007

Hi Theresa,

I hope it is OK to add you to my IL list - your reading lists are very inspiring. Also thanks for the enormous time you devote to your very successful group Art is Life, which I read daily with great enjoyment.

Cheers,

Karen

publicado por kiwidoc às 11:13 pm (EST) em Oct 19, 2007

Theresa,

I have to tell you that I spend the majority of the night reading Art is Life threads. Went to sleep at around 4:30 am and was back up at 9:00 - it was the first thing on my mind again (okay, second, coffee was first)...I'm overwhelmed by the experience and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Life is about connections - I think you've said this somewhere - and connecting meaningfully with others is not always easy for me. I truly feel that the ground has shifted and this could be the beginning of something tremendously good! What delightful people and now I am inspired to pull my poetry books out of their boxes !!

Here's to more discussion and creative insight!

Iris

publicado por villandry às 2:54 pm (EST) em Oct 19, 2007

Thanks for the invitation to your group on Art! The creative process is amazing and so very interesting I am looking forward to hearing (reading) what others have to say.

Iris (villandry)

publicado por villandry às 7:08 pm (EST) em Oct 18, 2007

RE: Thanks for stopping by Art is Life...
by TheresaWilliams|3:16 pm (EST)|Oct 15, 2007
I appreciate your warm welcome. I will make sure to visit whenever I'm logged on. Hello from Manila. :)

publicado por krvilla às 9:02 pm (EST) em Oct 15, 2007

Theresa - thanks for the welcome to your group. I am intrigued and impressed by the wonderful subjects and posts. It is a wonderful idea.

Cheers, KAren

publicado por kiwidoc às 12:06 pm (EST) em Oct 13, 2007

Theresa-

I typically just don't engage when those political diatribes burst out, but I couldn't resist just a little response. We definately need some more participants in our little Deep South book club -- I am usually discussing the book with myself! So don't hesitate to join in or invite some others. Jen

publicado por jhowell às 3:20 pm (EST) em Oct 2, 2007

It's nice to have you back from Big Sur and in the groups again. I hope all went well.

publicado por geneg às 6:33 pm (EST) em Sep 15, 2007

Thank you for your message. I will try to get your poetry book in Europe.

publicado por diwan às 8:08 pm (EST) em Sep 9, 2007

Hi Theresa, you seem to be very popular judging by the number of posting and I would add with good reason. I wanted to say hello and intridce myself. I noticed that one of the posting talked about the Denial of Death, I book that I read a number of years ago but I still remember. I work as a Hospice volunteer and I've worked for a number of years as nurses aide in nursing homes so I have seen death and dying a lot. Each time it is very powerful. As I get older it gets more powerful and the desire to seek what I really value becauses more powerful. I also work as volunteer in a local middle school and last year I started giving books to students that seemed to need encouragment or postive reward. I was supprised in a very nice way how much that pleased the students. By the way Moby Dick was a big success in the middle school group. Best wishes Michael

publicado por michaelbartley às 12:21 am (EST) em Sep 9, 2007

Thanks for the invite, Theresa. I've been traveling and have just now returned to LibraryThing to see what's up. Hope I can participate.

Will

publicado por wyaryan às 8:33 pm (EST) em Sep 7, 2007

I caught you last minute at class on Wednesday about adding me to the Modern Poetry group - sorry! I'd really like to check out everything this weekend and start getting caught up on on everything. You teased about it in class, and now my curiosity is all worked up :)

publicado por silver5856 às 5:34 am (EST) em Sep 7, 2007

Theresa, please add me to the modern poetry group. Sorry that I was slow in getting this accomplished. Thanks, Andrew Tannehill.

publicado por LightMyFire às 2:10 pm (EST) em Aug 27, 2007

Greg Williamson has a wonderful poem called something like "The Life and Times of Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius" in his book [Errors in the Script]. I think you'd like it.

publicado por JMatthews às 1:35 am (EST) em Aug 20, 2007

Fools are often my favorites too. I can't think of any character I've ever loved more than Falstaff. His brilliance is idiotic, his idiocy brilliant. I hope someday I'll think so highly of myself.
You're right about the careerist thing. I just hate myself when I start licking envelopes and organizing packets of poems and scrutinizing a particular journal to get a feel for whether or not they'll like my work. I feel like I'm a sort of spy, plotting the daredevil infiltration of some all-powerful king's hovel. I dream of planting my flag in a lean-to. But without dreams, what are we?

publicado por JMatthews às 1:16 am (EST) em Aug 20, 2007

I feel the same way about writing. Without my hope for my work, I think I would have given up a long time ago. I guess what bothers me is that, in order to believe my writing is more than self-indulgent and meaningless gibberish, I have to believe I'm writing for the ages, which, of course, is terribly presumptuous. But, if I'm writing for myself, I'm not really writing. And if I'm writing to sell books or to win prizes, I'm writing immorally because I'm treating writing as a means and not its own end. In either case, my every word would be a lie to myself. So, I have to tell myself I am or will write something not good but great. How foolish. But, it seems to me, one has to be a fool to go on.

publicado por JMatthews às 12:48 am (EST) em Aug 20, 2007

I just saw the earlier comments you'd left. Thank you so much for you kindness! I'm blushing. Anyway, I'm 24. And I'm still unsure about which way to go with the PhD; what's scary is my applications will be due in a few months! I know I should do some program, but I'm worried if I go one way I'll be boxed in and be forced to teach only one or the other: and I want to do both!

publicado por JMatthews às 12:10 am (EST) em Aug 20, 2007

I really enjoyed In Watermelon Sugar, A Confederate General at Big Sur, Trout Fishing in America, etc, but my appreciation has been strictly intuitive. I have no critical ability with which to approach his writing. I can understand his sort of satirical wholly beautiful not-world, and why it exists, but I'm befuddled as to how he created it, or how I can, with any sort of method, approach it with more substantial comments than "Awesome," which is pretty much the extent of my Brautigan criticism so far. The poems I can do a little more with, but their approach is still recalcitrant to my bumbling analytical tactics.

publicado por JMatthews às 12:05 am (EST) em Aug 20, 2007

I'm actually getting my second Master's degree in poetry...I just finished my MFA, but I couldn't decide if I should do a traditional literature or a creative writing doctorate. So, I decided to pick up an MA while I thought about it. Any advice?

publicado por JMatthews às 11:03 pm (EST) em Aug 19, 2007

Thank you for setting up a forum that's so much fun!

publicado por JMatthews às 9:24 pm (EST) em Aug 19, 2007

I stopped by your YourTube site. Loved the video. What CD did the Art Garfunkel tune come from?

publicado por rdixon98 às 5:23 pm (EST) em Aug 19, 2007

Hi Theresa,
I read in your biography that you're interested in the connection between art and mental illness. My blog is largely devoted to exploring poetry and manic depression. If you're interested, take a look at: http://unorthodoxorthodoxy.blogspot.com Best, Jim

publicado por JMatthews às 11:08 pm (EST) em Aug 17, 2007

Hi Theresa, thanks for your comment. I'll keep an eye on what the group is discussing. It looks as if we have some geography in common: I went to grad school in Columbus and got married there, even considered a job in residence life at BGSU, but chose NC State instead and have been in eastern and central NC since 1978.

publicado por Jim53 às 1:17 pm (EST) em Aug 17, 2007

I am about 3/4 of the way through The Secret of Hurricanes and reading it I feel just like I am back in Pamlico county. I hadn't thought about how the cockelburrs felt when I pulled them out of my socks after walking across a field. The football game against Swannsboro just brought back the fall Friday nights under the lights. I think we played Swannsboro. We played Beaufort and Morehead City and Jonesboro and at least one school in Onslow County but I couldn't tell you what it was. I can't believe the eastern North Carolina feel given by evoking a few real places. You mention Donna, she blew right over Oriental. We closed up the house, opened the windows on the lee side and went to town to ride it out. When the eye came over we rushed home, closed the leeward windows, opened the windward side windows, and rushed back to town. This prevented the pressure change from damaging the house without getting everything soaked.

Both my father and I spent time in the hospital at Camp Lejuene (or was it Camp Geiger?) anyway one of them. I remember as if it were yesterday driving down US 17 from New Bern to Jacksonville to visit my dad.

As much as I would like to have known Pearl when I was sixteen, I'm glad now that I didn't. I am amazed reading Pearl, until last year I used to take my son to school. I was amazed at how little these nubile young girls wear, and with push up bras and lots of cleavage how little they are aware of human sexuality. I often wondered what those girls were thinking. Reading Pearl, I still don't know, but I get a feeling that their sexuality is bursting forth into a darkness of which they are totally innocent. This is not good. With boys on fire and girls on fire sparks are bound to fly. One of the things about being a teenage boy in the sixties was that there were a lot of layers of clothes to get through, which gave the girls plenty of time to lay down the law. Now, they start off naked. Not much of a defense. Pearl's attitude is like the holy grail to a teenage boy, but I don't think Pearl is interested in teenage boys.

I am just completely blown away by the whole experience of reading this book. While I had to get used to your style, short sentences, judicious, but effective use of fragments it adds to the music of the simple language. I am very impressed. Thank you for being here and thank you for writing this book.

publicado por geneg às 9:25 pm (EST) em Aug 16, 2007

Hi
Livingston and MacAdam have some kind of relationship. I heard a rumor that at one point they were going to combine some activities, something like Livingston doing the paperback and MacAdam the hardback. Of course, MacAdam is much the finer press. What drew me to Livingston was the tag "offbeat literature." I thought, well, if I am literature at all that's my sub-genre.

publicado por coreymesler às 7:59 am (EST) em Aug 16, 2007

Hi Theresa--

I got my copy of The Secret of Hurricanes yesterday. What a handsome production. I am jealous. Macadam Cage is such a happening publisher. Anyway, I hope to read you soon.

Corey

publicado por coreymesler às 8:05 am (EST) em Aug 15, 2007

Theresa,

I just stumbled upon your group "Art is Life" and read its profile. The first word that comes to mind is, "Wow!" I truly admire your words and thoughts on art (as I do, too, feel the same way), personality, your profile, and your group. It's definitely life-affirming and, for the record, it's why we need more individuals like yourself!

publicado por seemingmeaning às 4:50 pm (EST) em Aug 14, 2007

Theresa, you're already listed as my friend, according to my page. Maybe it's automatically reciprocal? Thanks for being so welcoming to this newbie--and fellow writer (poet). The group looks great.

publicado por amyspade às 1:40 pm (EST) em Aug 14, 2007

Hi Theresa,
Thanks for inviting me to the group. So pleasing to read interesting, artful conversation.

publicado por scriveners_lot às 10:27 am (EST) em Aug 14, 2007

Oh you're right, we should have swapped. I sometimes have run up against authors who didn't like that idea, or didn't respond when I offered it. I think that's because they assumed, rightly, that I was trying to trade a turd for a twinkie. I'll get your book today and I'm looking forward to it.

publicado por coreymesler às 7:27 am (EST) em Aug 14, 2007

another chuckle that you've caught me, this time underrating Roethke.

i'm gonna have to give his collection another eye and see if i can get over an old college professor's over-influence . ..

indeed, he's written some beautiful poetry ...

publicado por Tim_Watkinson às 2:57 am (EST) em Aug 14, 2007

Hello, Theresa. Thank you for the invitation. It's lovely to be noticed. I can already tell that I am going to like Art Is Life quite a lot. I love that you come up with these thought-provoking questions that lead to so many different kinds of answers. I've been doing a lot of reading on Myers-Briggs typing; it's good to run into someone else who is conversant. How useful do you find it? Well, I hope this leads to many engaging and enlightening conversations....

publicado por citygirl às 6:27 pm (EST) em Aug 13, 2007

Hi, Theresa! Thanks so much for the invitation to Art Is Life -- it looks fascinating, and your introduction to it is simply lovely. I look forward to reading more, and to discovering more about your work as well. I've already begun getting all sorts of great book ideas from your library -- thanks for sharing it. As someone who strives to be a creative artist myself (when not overwhelmed with the duties of professoring), and as a fellow INFP, your catalog is of great interest to me -- the proverbial kid in a candy store, and I think Amazon may be getting a whole lot more of my money soon! :-)

publicado por pmowrey às 3:50 pm (EST) em Aug 13, 2007

thanks for stopping by my library. you have an interesting collection of books. i like to be touched deeply by what i read as well so feel free to stop by with recommendations anytime. happy reading!

publicado por amanaceerdh às 9:40 am (EST) em Aug 13, 2007

Thank you for stopping by. I look forward to having some time to meet everyone and find out what Art is Life is all about.

Lisa

publicado por anoisblue às 11:20 am (EST) em Aug 11, 2007

Thank you for your response to my whiny note. I don't want to be a high maintenance friend but as one of those misfits I do struggle with my insecurities. We'll get this letter thing in gear soon, one day this upcoming week. Anyway, thanks for being.

P.S. I'm going to look for a copy of The Secret Life of Hurricanes and let you know what I think.

publicado por geneg às 10:25 am (EST) em Aug 11, 2007

Theresa, thank you for the invitation to the Art is Life group. I know I will enjoy being part of it. While I don't know that I consider myself an artist, my adult daughter who lives with me definitely is. My attic is now an artist's workshop/hideway, etc.

And thank you for the invitation to be your friend. You would not have known this but The Sun is one of my most treasured publications. I have been reading it for many years. I encountered Pema Chodron there which has led me down a spiritual path I continue to explore.

I'm an ENTJ, although the T/F was a tossup. Don't know that I put much stock in this method of putting us in boxes. We did an exercise at a work retreat based on this with each of us ending up in a square based on our pattern which was quite enlightening actually.

publicado por PDE às 1:21 am (EST) em Aug 11, 2007

Theresa--

You are too kind. But, you know, spread the word. How come I can't find a publisher for my new novels?

And, by the way, I have ordered yours for myself. Macadam Cage is where it's at. They passed on my newest and I was, briefly, heartbroken.

Corey

publicado por coreymesler às 8:26 am (EST) em Aug 9, 2007

Oh, goody! I'm eager to see what you post for Books Compared.

I'm frequently grumpy. Just try to rise above it whenever I can. I have dial-up, too, which makes me very grumpy!

publicado por margad às 9:29 pm (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

Thank you for the invitation to Art is Life. It seems to be both a lovely and a lively virtual space ^_^

publicado por rarm às 8:21 pm (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

Thanks for introducing yourself. You've got great taste in poets. May I suggest Kevin Young? His latest, For the Confederate Dead, is amazing. Best, Kel Munger

publicado por KelMunger às 4:54 pm (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

You are very kind! Thanks for the compliment.

Peace and Laughter,

publicado por jugglingpaynes às 3:08 pm (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

No I haven't read it, but thanks for the heads up.

publicado por kperfetto às 2:09 pm (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

Hello!
Thank you for adding me to your friends. I love "meeting" new people. I also joined your group, thanks for the invite. I don't know how well I qualify as artist or writer. I have been creating comic strips and writing on my blog, but I haven't really tried to publish anything yet. My family keeps me busy to do any more than scratch that itch to create.

I loved reading what you wrote about yourself. I find my life an incredible adventure and I've found a lot of inspiration in books I've read recently, e.g. The Alchemist and The Wisdom of Heraclitus. I find them enlightening and entertaining.

Peace and Laughter,

publicado por jugglingpaynes às 10:23 am (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

Speaking of writing quickly (see below), I wish they had an edit feature in the profile comments section. I sounded grumpy about Caravaggio - he will turn up sooner or later, I'm sure.

publicado por margad às 2:42 am (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

I had my husband check the DVD rental places for the Schama series with the Caravaggio segment. Not there, or at the library either.

I've been wanting to congratulate you on the success of the Art is Life group. It's way up there on the "most active" list, for good reason. Always so much food for thought! Probably because you are so great at posing provocative questions. You have a deep and reflective spirit, which is why I coveted you for the Books Compared group. BC has been languishing, alas, since I spent 2 months in rural Texas and couldn't check in regularly. But it is starting to revive a bit. There are a few other people, too, who are contemplating posting comparisons which I expect to be interesting. Slow is often good, because it can be so much more thoughtful. I tend to write quickly, especially online, where I often have to modify positions I've impulsively taken.

publicado por margad às 2:40 am (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

Thanks Theresa!
Wishing it to grow in Beauty!

publicado por horlet às 12:53 am (EST) em Aug 8, 2007

Gregory Orr, Richard Brautigan and the the connections between mental illness and creativity. I am indeed, intrigued. I look forward to reading The Secret of Hurricanes. Are you familiar with Kay Redfield Jamison's books - The Unquiet Mind and Touched with Fire? She delves into the artist and their turbulent flows of creativity.

publicado por bleuroses às 6:25 pm (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

Thanks for checking out the references to Hugo in Wright's letters!

publicado por southwestpoet às 5:12 pm (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

too funny. remind me never to get into a typing contest with you.

publicado por Tim_Watkinson às 2:31 pm (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

Oh yes -- that P&W article first enlightened me about Franz Wright. I will certainly have to check James Wright's book of letters out at the U of Az library here in Tucson. I know he was a close friend of my favorite poet, Richard Hugo, and I collect as much as I can about his life (I even have a Word doc. bibliography of common and obscure sources on him). I recently scoured a bio of James Dickey for excerpts on Hugo. In any event, I will have to take a look at your You Tube videos of your classroom instructions; I've garnered a few such instructional media on creative processes, and I am always interested in methodology (e.g. I recently read Ted Kooser's book on poetry). One more thought on your McCarthy comments: 'Suttree' competes in my mind with 'Blood Meridian' as my favorite novel, divergent as they are.

publicado por southwestpoet às 11:14 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

Hi, Theresa. We like Germany very much. I am in Arizona until early September, and return there in September with my wife, who is a special education teacher for one of the DoD schools there.

As a poet, it's pastoral vistas have triggered much of my writing, including my poems set in America (I am primarily a Southwest regional poet). I love James Wright's poetry, as well as that of his son, Franz. Noting your comment about reading books about how authors create art, I recently bought biographies of Plath and Sexton; tragedy always draws me in to study it. By the way, your reactions to 'The Crossing' and 'The Road' were similar to mine: there is something intoxicating in McCarthy's language, and after reading the latter I went outside, looked at the sky, and literally shuddered over what a real possibility such a scenario it presented could be.

publicado por southwestpoet às 10:34 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

Hi Theresa! I've just been checking out your blog. Congrats on the upcoming story in The Sun. I used to have a subscription.

I don't know if you've read Robin Hemley's memoir Nola, but if not, I think it would be your cup of tea.

publicado por pagesturned às 10:15 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

I am thanking you muchly.

publicado por coreymesler às 8:24 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

I have not read many of the books people have discussed in the Books Compared group, either. We've attracted a group of Nabokov enthusiasts who inspired me to read my first Nabokov novel - not Lolita, which I have read so much about that I was afraid it might feel stale before I got started, but Pnin, which is a masterpiece of precise observation of character and nevertheless didn't get me particularly excited. I think I have relished the discussions about Nabokov's work much more than I have the work itself - but I was very glad to make his acquaintance.

publicado por margad às 1:57 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

Alas, no, I did not see the PBS Caravaggio piece. I'm sure I would have enjoyed it. I read a biography or biographical novel (I'm not sure which anymore) about Caravaggio some years ago, and his life seemed as dramatic as his paintings.

When I started Books Compared, I just randomly picked the two books I had read most recently to get the discussion started (March and Gilead). What an offbeat comparison, I thought, these books are nothing alike. I was stunned when I started playing around with the comparison, though. At heart, they turned out to be so very similar, it almost seemed some subconscious awareness had led me to them. Your posts on Life is Art and the Reader-Writers groups are so insightful and intriguing, I know you'll come up with something that will inspire us all!

publicado por margad às 1:47 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

I thought you would like the Frida Kahlo poem.
Miriam

publicado por almigwin às 12:03 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2007

You're very kind and welcoming. I'll post this over there but a 60s erotica story I wrote won 3rd place in an online contest and it can be found here:

http://www.desdmona.com/contestwinners.p...

It is a brief visit back to the folks in my novel We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon and Mr. Brautigan makes a brief appearance.

Corey

publicado por coreymesler às 8:30 am (EST) em Aug 6, 2007

Thanks for the invitation, Theresa. I'll try to contribute when I can. You seem to be carrying the group at the moment. It's as though you are teaching an online class and keeping up with the discussion postings. I ended up having to reduce the number of postings in my online classes because of the sheer volume of postings.

publicado por firstcitybook às 1:30 am (EST) em Aug 6, 2007

Thanks Theresa! E-mailing people when they join the group is a smart way to welcome them and help build community. I look forward to checking out the group as I become a more avid librarythinger. I found the site ages ago but am only just now beginning to use it. Seems like there's lots of exciting energy & passion focused around this site. Can't wait to join in with the discussions.

publicado por enderash às 12:41 am (EST) em Aug 6, 2007

Theresa,

Thanks for the invite. This is a great idea for a group--I'll contribute when I can.

ren

publicado por rennikka às 6:50 pm (EST) em Aug 5, 2007

Hi Theresa--

If you wanna start a Brautigan post that would be lovely. I have an aversion to this kind of online communication, in general, just because I have so little to say--about anything, really. But I will try to contribute if only grunts and clicks.

publicado por coreymesler às 10:00 am (EST) em Aug 5, 2007

Well, in my 60s novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, Mr. Brautigan is invoked in a couple poems, and appears as a character in a couple short stories. I took that concept one step further and wrote a whole damn novel where his ghost appears to a young poet, who is then taken on a cross-country trip following the ghost's whims. And who had better whims than Richard Brautigan?

publicado por coreymesler às 9:30 am (EST) em Aug 4, 2007

Thanks for the kind words about the poetry, Theresa. Glad you like it!

publicado por stevenschroeder às 8:52 am (EST) em Aug 4, 2007

What's the difference between "add" and "invite a" friend.

I don't get the difference at all,

E.M.

publicado por ellenandjim às 9:01 pm (EST) em Aug 3, 2007

Dear Theresa,

As with most things on LibraryThing I cannot figure out what this is about, but as I would like to be your acquaintance and maybe we could be friends, by all means add me.

If I knew how to add others, I might start. I like interesting libraries as an idea but have no idea how to do it. Nothing comes with an explanation so I'm usually at a loss.

Ellen

publicado por ellenandjim às 1:45 pm (EST) em Aug 3, 2007

I have a novel manuscript circulating now like a dying buzzard, destined to find no publisher sympathetic to its cockeyed nostalgia trip and its title is Following Richard Brautigan.

publicado por coreymesler às 9:50 am (EST) em Aug 3, 2007

Ha! yes, Brautigan! He's common ground enough.

publicado por coreymesler às 9:22 am (EST) em Aug 3, 2007

Hi Theresa--

I am a join-nothing kinda guy yet I've accepted your invitation. What does this mean? That I am softening in my middlescence? Probably. Anyway, now what do we do? And where's the finger food table?

Corey

publicado por coreymesler às 7:41 am (EST) em Aug 3, 2007

I attended East Carolina College for one year, 1963-1964 and flunked out. I was more into having unregulated, unadulterated fun than anything else.

I went to high school in Pamlico County, all four years. I lived in Oriental at that time, not far as the crow flies from Jacksonville, but quite a ways by car. Oriental is almost directly across the river from Cherry Point. This was 1959 - 1963. I'm several years older than you.

I got caught up in the beat-hippie culture of the mid to late sixties, and did a stint in Vietnam. I was the first kid in Pamlico County to own any Bob Dylan records. Needless to say I was looked on with some suspicion by most of the kids in the county.

Anyway, you ever go back to Eastern North Carolina?

publicado por geneg às 6:13 pm (EST) em Aug 2, 2007

Theresa:

Thanks for the note and forgive me if I occasionally drop the "h" in your name--one of my old pals is married to a woman named "Teresa" and I may fall in to bad habits...

I shall contribute to the group as often as I can--between my family, my writing and my blog, there ain't a whole lot of time left over. Still, I should think I have rather a lot to say about "Art and Life", about art BEING life, about how life without my art would be meaningless, horrific and (no doubt) very short in duration. The words I wrote on the "Writers-Readers" site about writing being about survival sounded melodramatic...but perhaps not to those who are obsessed with the printed word, creating new ideas, new stories, new types of narratives. I am DRIVEN to create every day--I have no choice. It's a compulsion and a calling, one that is not without its downsides. The physical act of writing is painful and debilitating, especially after twenty-five or thirty years pounding away at various types of keyboards and wearing out more pens than all the hacks on Grub Street.

My blog, of course, has more to say on this subject...it's the most honest view of the writing life I can offer. And not always pretty.

Thanks, again.

publicado por CliffBurns às 11:03 am (EST) em Aug 2, 2007

Thanks for the invitation, Theresa. I look forward to contact and to discussing what strikes our fancy, particularly poetry.

Murph (ThePerpetualOrgy)

publicado por ThePerpetualOrgy às 10:48 pm (EST) em Aug 1, 2007

Theresa:

Thanks for the invite and I'll pop in to "Art is Life" when I can...and when I have something worth saying. I think it's an excellent concept for a group. Best wishes to you--

Cliff

publicado por CliffBurns às 7:31 pm (EST) em Aug 1, 2007

Hi, thanks for the invitation. (INTP, here....)

- Bob

publicado por AsYouKnow_Bob às 5:55 pm (EST) em Aug 1, 2007

Hi there -- thanks for the invite. i hope the group takes off. i've found a key to these groups being successful is for somebody to introduce an intriguing new discussion topic every couple of days.

publicado por NativeRoses às 5:05 pm (EST) em Aug 1, 2007

Thank you for inviting me to be your friend, and for adding me to interesting libraries. I also love poetry very much as you probably have guessed. I just got the Liesl Mueller and liked it a lot. Miriam

publicado por almigwin às 1:15 pm (EST) em Aug 1, 2007

no I am not anywhere near done yet...it will take a long time.. xxoo

publicado por ckays1967 às 3:48 pm (EST) em May 31, 2007

_Above the River_ is a favorite. "Hook", "A Blessing", "St. Judas", "Poems to a Brown Cricket", "Trouble"... lots of top shelf poems in there. I'm going to be teaching it in my undergraduate class this fall.

I did thoroughly enjoy _The Road_, but maybe enjoy isn't really the right word. It's a short read but I probably took a week with it--I had to keep putting the thing down because it was so intensely upsetting/heart wrenching. I had a similar expirience with _The Crossing_ emotionally. _The Road_ is a lot more muscular than the early _Suttree_-era McCarthy (where my real allegiances lie) but it's still haunting in the way you expect his work to be. Much better than _No Country For Old Men_ which was kind of pulpy in my opinion.

If you've got any advice for teaching James Wright please feel free to pass it along. And let me know what you think about _The Road_ if you wind up reading it.

publicado por georgedavidclark às 10:23 pm (EST) em May 29, 2007

Thanks Theresa. Glaser was here last semester as our Rhea Visiting Writer, which translates as a reading, a craft talk, and some time alone with him for each of us to get a fresh critique of our work.

publicado por georgedavidclark às 3:53 pm (EST) em May 28, 2007

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