“In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.” NeedsEffortShadowNew Work Author:Phillip Lopate
“I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.” NeedsGivingPersonsHas BeensBodyMightPainLastsOrderDiesEffortGrowingDevilSuicideWoundsRepresentationPsychicsTormentSuicidalOutletsTangibleExorcism Author:Phillip Lopate
