Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0017
Kia Corthron
Poets almost inevitably reflect painterly ideas and ideals, and methods and processes in their work. Painters too almost inevitably reflect the principles of poetry—metaphor, narrative, symbolism, and so forth. At a conference at Washington University in St. Louis in 1997, on the relationship between poetry and painting, Derek Walcott said: “When we look at paintings that do not attempt to mimic the page, but make something more than just calligraphy, there is an echo that goes with that painting. The echo need not be the linear representation of an idea, like a piece of prose, or fiction painted, or even a poem painted, but some other echo that it creates.”...
诗人几乎不可避免地在他们的作品中反映出绘画的思想和理想、方法和过程。画家也几乎不可避免地反映了诗歌的原则——隐喻、叙事、象征等等。1997年，在华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校(Washington University in St. Louis)举行的一次关于诗歌与绘画关系的会议上，德里克·沃尔科特(Derek Walcott)说:“当我们看到那些不试图模仿书页，而不仅仅是书法的绘画时，那幅画会产生一种呼应。”回声不一定是一种思想的线性表现，比如一篇散文，一篇小说，甚至一首诗，而是它所创造的其他回声。”
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0028
Kia Corthron
Sometimes William Faulkner’s fiction conjures up for me images akin to those found in, say, the paintings of Edvard Munch. Both painter and writer share a particular kind of cold and cold-blooded angst. Munch’s 1901 lithograph “Dead Lovers,” which depicts a man and a woman lying dead on a stark bed, blood running down from the mattress to the floor, might have served as a jacket illustration for ...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0042
Kia Corthron
September 10 There was no warning. Rising from his rest the dog bit the man’s leg, did it quietly, then returned to his spot on the front lawn to rest. A solitary taproot grows into a green bush on which years later a naked girl one day hangs...
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{"title":"The Young Doctor (1916)","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0045","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <italic>At noon he smiles and nods</italic> </p> <p> <italic>as he drives by</italic>,</p> <p> <italic>thinking perhaps soon</italic> </p> <p> <italic>she will be pregnant</italic> </p> <p> <italic>coming to me</italic>,</p> <p> <italic>but he’s wrong.</italic> </p> <p> <italic>He sees a long line</italic> </p> <p> <italic>of pregnant women</italic> </p> <p> <italic>packed like fish</italic> </p> <p> <italic>in a net bursting out</italic> </p> <p> <italic>the seams of their dresses.</italic> </p> <p>Ah! Give me a cup of tea...</p>","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134454066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0037
Kia Corthron
I am Mfu, not a bit romantic, a water spirit, a voice from deep in the Atlantic: Mfu jumped ship, made his escape, to find relief from his grief on the way, long ago, to Brazil or Georgia or Carolina— he doesn’t know which; but this is real, not a sentimental...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0052
Kia Corthron
Once up, nude or not, they tend to come down— gravity not withstanding, with or without understanding. They come down. The woman carrying a lantern comes down slowly, inspecting the dark. A woman fresh from her bath comes down, damp and refreshed. Somebody’s niece or wife, in a chemise,...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0051
Kia Corthron
A Montparnasse August with view of the Cimetière. A yard of bones. We wake to it. Close curtains to it. Wake to its lanes. Rows of coffin-stones in varying light. Walking here. Late with shade low, low, long. We’re passing through, just passing through neat aisles of gray mausoleums....
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0029
Kia Corthron
The hard questions usually have no simple answers. For me, writing stories is the best means of dealing with difficult questions of ethics, morality, and philosophy. In confronting perplexing questions in my fiction and poetry, I’ve achieved an odd kind of success. Often, I have no idea how to formulate the question, let alone the answer, before I struggle with it through the process of writing. The writing then becomes the avenue into the complex nature of the question itself. If I come out of the process with a clearer sense of the question, and with no answer—which is more often the case than not—I am satisfied. That’s the odd success. I stopped, for example, asking, “Is there a God?” by age twenty-one, after which everything, in Gide’s words, seemed “downhill.”...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0032
Kia Corthron
Part 5 includes 23 poems. Some of the poems--for example, “Water and Sand,” “Faith,” and “Alchemy”--employ rapid scene cuts and flash images. The poem, “Hair,” delves deep into Black hair superstitions, wryly but without judgement. His own epic poem, “The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage” shows that art can be both political and didactic. The rest of the poems in this section deal with diverse themes and topics including work, grief, weakness, justice, faith, and place.
第五部分包括23首诗。有些诗——比如《水与沙》、《信仰》和《炼金术》——采用了快速的场景剪辑和闪光图像。这首诗，“头发”，深入探讨了黑发迷信，讽刺，但没有判断。他自己的史诗《奴隶贸易:从中间通道看》(The Slave Trade: View from The Middle Passage)表明，艺术可以兼具政治性和说教性。这部分的其余诗歌涉及不同的主题，包括工作、悲伤、软弱、正义、信仰和地方。
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0020
Kia Corthron
People have a tendency to ask a writer, Why did you become a writer? How did you become a writer? Every writer hears such questions over and over. You ever hear anybody ask a butcher a question like that? So, what’s so special about being a writer? Maybe we are simply fascinated by people who are brave (or foolish) enough to go against—and lucky enough to beat—the odds....
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