Papers by Marianne Rogoff
In the beginning all we owned was a deep hole that was bigger than both of us. On a clear morning... more In the beginning all we owned was a deep hole that was bigger than both of us. On a clear morning we watched the small wood box get lowered and dirt from the hole thrown on top where it settled over days and weeks and then we returned with garden gloves and shovels to plant rosemary and lavender. ~story excerpt
This story, about a severely brain-damaged baby who doctors warn will die within days, is beautif... more This story, about a severely brain-damaged baby who doctors warn will die within days, is beautifully told and exquisitely woven with subtlety and suspense... ~ Patricia Holthttps://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1093/thumbnail.jp
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How do creative writers transform the complexity of life into literature? Remix Perspectives pres... more How do creative writers transform the complexity of life into literature? Remix Perspectives presents a bricolage synthesis of transdisciplinary insights for workshop leaders and creative writers, appropriated from selected artistic and literary voices from more or less the last hundred years. Seminal concepts from arts such as painting, poetry, dance, music, and photography are gathered here as they inform the arts of literary fiction and creative nonfiction. Thinkers from philosophy, psychology, literary theory, complexity, and metaphysics address the inner and outer realms where the work of the writer is generated and goes forth
Sam Shepard is a place, and in The One Inside (Knopf 2017) you’re there with him on the ground in... more Sam Shepard is a place, and in The One Inside (Knopf 2017) you’re there with him on the ground in the American desert. Shepard doesn’t like to fly so maybe this gives him a different point of view from the rest of us who are always taking off, in the air, and landing. His characters are found in motel rooms on empty highways, on porches, wandering open space, asleep under overpasses, walking next to the interstate as cars fly by so fast they never stop to notice anyone’s there. ~article except
The filial bonds represented in these 27 short stories by contemporary women range from natural a... more The filial bonds represented in these 27 short stories by contemporary women range from natural and intimate, as in the excerpts from Audre Lorde\u27s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, wherein a daughter happily tastes food from her father\u27s plate, to artificial and unpleasant, as in the weekend spent by two blood-related strangers in Mariane Rogoff\u27s Meeting My Father Halfway. Two of the best stories--Edna O\u27Brien\u27s What a Sky and Joyce Carol Oates\u27s Stroke --examine in jarring detail the complexity of seemingly normal relationships. A lingering sense of loss and missed opportunities infuses the omnibus. Hospitals and funerals are the prevailing setting; in one story, People Should Not Die in June in South Texas, by Gloria E. Anzaldua, a father\u27s death occasions a narrative that\u27s more like a wail of grief. The tone throughout is one of compassion mixed with anger--only in one instance, Carolyn Gage\u27s Letter to My Father, does it descend into unadulterated ha...
Since publishing A Woman\u27s World in 1995, Travelers\u27 Tales has been the recognized leader i... more Since publishing A Woman\u27s World in 1995, Travelers\u27 Tales has been the recognized leader in women\u27s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women\u27s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series-- The Best Women\u27s Travel Writing --that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman\u27s perspective and compelling storytell.https://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1094/thumbnail.jp
Will Green is outside in the dark with a chainsaw, cutting a cord of wood into logs small enough ... more Will Green is outside in the dark with a chainsaw, cutting a cord of wood into logs small enough to fit the woodstove. His bundled body is tall in the long shadow from the porch bulb; outdoor Christmas lights color the ground around his feet. Familiar strength moves his muscles through tiredness as he works, and he measures success by the neat rows. He sweats. He sheds the wool cap. Snowflakes land on his hair and glisten the woodpile, many-pointed stars whose edges dissolve as they gather. He’s alone and it’s freezing cold but he likes it. He likes seeing his breath in the air and the largeness of the winter sky as it drops snow that will accumulate to a couple of feet before this storm is over. ~Story excerpt
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