This story has serious subject matter but it made me laugh out loud too. I used to work with a group of fourth grade girls in an after school program. She hit the nail on the head of the strange, cruel tics that girls that age have.
America's GREAT overrated playwright, author of it's most overrated "great" play, "Death of a Salesman." And if you didn't know this already, notice that he offers up the truly unimportant Clifford Odets as his hero/role model. Odets plays are both unreadable and un-experienceable (which is not a word, I know) and anyone taking a hack's advice has little chance of ever becoming anything but a hack himself. Miller's more polished, but so, too, are my shoes, which I just had waxed. My shoes would prove lousy playwrights, as well by the way.Good for him he got to boink Marilyn, though.
Lee, more I read you, I become sure about possibility of getting dark things and mysteries and fascination of life around and every single thing we could sometimes just feel but won't even try to catch and capture through words, written. I read and reread your poems and every time they assure me a different world - a cosmos too abstract to make anyone understand. You just write what couldn't be ever put to words. Confusions and insanity and everything uncertain that shrouds the mystery this life is. You write madness and it's kind of "dark" one - one into new worlds. Of all of your poetry I have loved this line most "And the world keeps beginning."
"The world exists in a condition of saturated presence and meaning and being, sometimes it's difficult to rescue a poem out of that stream of over-abundance of being " Mehn, he's easily becoming my favorite poet!
I would have loved to have taken a class with Edward Hirsch. He's so completely comfortable talking about his craft. He's so knowledgable. You can tell this guy has dedicated his life to poetry. He is a master of poetry. I only wish this video had more footage of him actually reading poems.
Wow, the story actually stirred anger in me. It hit the nail on the head when it comes to racial tensions, victimization of handicapped persons, and even religious bigotry. The abuses of individuals is never acceptable, and this story ended exactly right when it said that there was a mean portion that could not readily be solved. Humans are mean to one another. If you are black, white, gay, straight, Amish, or Jehovah's Witness, mankind is really rude and immoral to one another. You did a great job with this story. It stirred emotions on real situations lived today.
hello sir I am doing a project on your short story "GREASY Lake" . i would like to know about if some how the theme of transformation can be extracted out of this story .
I love this woman so much. I wish I could meet her, even over the phone and tell her all about what she did for me on CBS Radio Mystery Theater. I love her.
