I write poetry. I always have. Most of it is doggerel but occassionally there are glimpses of talent there. In any case, I find poetry is the perfect expression of paradox since it distills into a condensed and succinct form the multiple and opposing meanings, the tensions and the stresses of things like death, sex [...]
Thoughts on “Twilight” from the perspective of a radical ex-Mormon
I’ve been meaning to write this post for awhile but I was finally compelled into it after reading The Atlantic article discussed in last week’s Smart Bitches Trashy Books. A little background first, a disclosure if you will, of my Mormon credentials. I was born to a pair of Mormon radicals and even when I went [...]
Heroes
I have just finished editing the paper I gave at the 2008 PCA. It went from an 8 page speech into a 15 page writing sample for graduate school applications. It was through this process that I came across Lilian R. Furst’s The Romantic Hero, or is he an Anti-Hero? ¹ an article that was published before I was [...]
Beautiful Heroines Make Me Want to Stab Things: A Rant
Despite the fact that I consider myself to be a very advanced reader–that is I read not only for pleasure and escape but also for knowledge and criticism, or whatever it is that distinguishes the two–I admit to a certain low brow reading habit in that I project myself into the hero. When I can’t do [...]
