Deep lane by mark doty6/22/2023 ![]() You can see immediately why such an experience might lead one to blog less frequently. She described the desolate view from her motel room when she went to give her talk the next morning, the professor who had invited her rose to give the introduction and quoted her post. ![]() The imagination doesn't really like to be accountable A friend tells the story of going to give a talk at a college in a town she found dismal. If I write a dismissive description of, say, the boardwalk at Atlantic City in a poem or essay, there's a lag-time before anyone will read it by the time it appears in print, I'll have lived with that passage awhile, and if I keep it then I'm prepared to stand behind it, and don't feel the vulernability I might should it have appeared on screens in the homes of interested people the day after I wrote it. This is often wonderful, sometimes just interesting, and occasionally quite uncomfortable. ![]()
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