by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 5, 2008 | memoir |
“Wordstruck is exactly what I was– and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling of words on the tongue and in the mind.” Robert MacNeil from his 1989 memoir, Wordstruck* Robert MacNeil’s...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 16, 2008 | memoir |
In his memoir, Dog Years, the poet Mark Doty writes, “only part of our reality is representable in words. I feel immersed in things I can’t name most of the time.” Still, he is a poet and a writer. He spends his life fighting against the...