I write prose the same way I write poetry or anything—I feel - TopicsExpress

Matt Bell

I write prose the same way I write poetry or anything—I feel pulled into a zone of not knowing, and I try to sing back to that invitation or pull. Maybe my singing is out of phase with the initial invitation, and so they create dissonances, amplifications and weird accidental harmonies. My writing is very sonically driven, it happens not entirely inside rationality, and I try to keep building towards that peak/declivity where the irrational splits apart from the rational and moves the writing outside of the paraphrasable or knowable. I dont think writing should build any kind of boundary wall, I dont think writing should wall out the terrible urges and urgencies that have the world skidding on its anthropogenic decline. I believe in a bloody grin and a look of dismay. I believe in influence, especially bad influences. I’m defenseless. I’m against humanism and its graveyard-whistling, though I like both graveyards and whistling. Meet me at the cemetery gates. You know how to whistle, dont you? —Joyelle McSweeney

Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 15:43:39 +0000

I write prose the same way I write poetry or anything—I feel - TopicsExpress

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