What if, Betye, instead of a rifle or hand grenade—I mean, what if after the loaded gun that takes two hands to fire, I lay down the splintered broom and the steel so cold it wets my cheek? What if I unclench the valleys of my...
That was the season I couldn’t think or write indoors, the garrulous springtime every strophe, every felicitous story’s pulse could only be crafted in tranquil cloisters, illuminating belvederes, or rambling villas. Luckily, it was an unbridled spring, all immoderate daisies and sunlit pediments, a bustling April, May,...
Things are growing strange these days, like Van Gogh’s yellow trees. Oh, do not be surprised by these yellow immensities, how out of proportion things in the picture seem. What you see in a way makes sense: the enormous, barren trees eclipsing the unimportant buildings at...
Firstly to confess lack of nearly all perspective. Eye sees things at the ends of stalks of the mind planted in the dull fat head and facing forward. Sees things flatly and lacks the way round. Consider this a lesson in how to see. As...