“I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about a fire (and about the attempt to understand the event), also becomes an attempt to understand how writing might get closer to the fire, in so many ways.” WayWritingBookHelpingMightFireEventsRelationFinalsHelp MeSectionsGorgeousIntroductionFurious Author:Laura Mullen
“When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?” DoeStillsBookYoungParticularAdmireInstanceHeyYoung WomenSectionsPresentationAllusion Author:Laura Mullen
“It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley (and Gertrude Stein) also suggest). "Torch Song," the book's final section, looks at an arson committed by someone hired to protect the wilderness from fires, a catastrophic failure of protection!” LooksBookSeemsSongFireProtectFinalsCommittedProtectionWildernessMarySectionsJustifiedTorchesSuggestingGertrudeShelleyArson Author:Laura Mullen
“In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat.” BookUseDesireCulturePositionPhrasesRepeatsParksRepetitionSectionsInterventionHealerBatteriesLoopsRevisionSufferers Author:Laura Mullen
