“The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.” MadeHandsPoetryMaterialsFitHumbleMemoirGifted Author:Patricia Hampl
“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?” FeelsWritingMeanPoetryLiteratureConsciousnessSubjectsStyleStrangeMaterialsIntegrityScenePerceptionAspectRelationCreatorDescriptionSoulfulAbsorptionArticulation Author:Patricia Hampl
“Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.” WorldSelfNightVoiceMaterialsIndustrySingingRelationSeekingCornersHumbleMemoirNarrativeAutobiographyEssaysAssuredFoldsCrowdedFluidTrustworthyPersonal ExperiencesCottagesKnittingFugitiveAriaVoice Singing Author:Patricia Hampl
