Susan McCallum-Smith Monday, April 18, 2011 Craft Essay This essay, adapted for TriQuarterly ... fox or mink, not the serviceable musquash acceptable to conservative middle-class Edinburgh. Suddenly ... clarity... a clear density.” I’d experienced through this fusty old coat what Sven Birkerts calls an ...
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Page 80 from Issue 4 subdued and disciplined by religion, but who can say that they are ... with conscience the literary experience of learning to like what one does not like. So it is ... particularly admirable, after this, to find the figure of Yeats reappearing in Eliot's poetry, in ...
Page 150 from Issue 114 Vietnamese society-there must be 80 million Vietnamese alive today-c-oo ... percent of them are still working in the fields. It's still an agricultural civilization, and ... that was a revelation to me. A farming country makes sense to me, but an agricultural civilization was ...
tell the stories behind the ones they publish, start conversations with readers, and curate and share ... third-party content." After the popular success of his serial parody on Twitter, Dan Sinker donated ... enjoying a revival along with independent regional publishing...are objects of beauty in their own right, ...
Fall 1998
Page 23 from Issue 103 TRIQUARTERLY a racial past. As I was growing up in Indianapolis, and it has ... Boll was a friend of mine, a Nobel prize winner, and a great novelist. I asked him what the flaw was in ... civilization twice. I just do not like to think about them anymore. I don't feel close to them ...
Carolyn Forché Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Craft Essay The intersection of personal experience and ... something larger than the sum of particulars. There is what the French call histoire de grands événements, ... the service of national identity and power, and the great events can become like an archipelago of ...
forms. Simply put, I’m thrilled to do my part to shatter all the preconceived notions of what an essay “should” ... be. As to the three-part structure, I chose to dovetail the essays alongside the craft essays (and ... a shared purpose—to take nonfiction to new and innovative places.” Hollars has not only collected what he ...
Page 184 from Issue 80 seems doomed, out-of-sync, a letter perpetually updated, postdated, never ... utopian form of conversation because it annuls the present and makes the future the only possible place of ... dialogue. But there also exists a second reason. What is exile but a situation which obliges us to ...
Fall 1986
Page 80 from Issue 67 reason or another formal education wasn't available to them and ... many had to make their way as unskilled laborers. They seemed not so much beaten or embarrassed by ... their work, of whatever kind, as numbed to a silence their children could hardly pierce. Nor were they ...
Spring / Summer 1989
it and with it I transcend despair. Writing, whether confessional prose or poetry, was irrevocably ... I began keeping diaries. Poetry writing was radically different. Unlike confessional prose, one could use ... because it was there whenever I tried to create, whether the work was confessional or not. When I left ...
