wordstruck

“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...
wordable awareness

wordable awareness

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...