Category: Subjective Experience

Academia, Archetypes, Symbolism, Metaphor, Motif, Book Review, Compassion and Empathy, Contraries and Contrasts, David Foster Wallace, deconstruction, Human Nature, the Psyche, Life, Literary Fiction, Literary v. Genre Fiction, Personal, Poetry by J.A. Carter-Winward, Poets Unlimited, Previous Post-Medium.com, Subjective Experience, The Word, Writers, Writing, Writing Life, Writing Process

New Year Must-Do’s Redux

J.A. Carter-Winward

It's that time of year again. The "I WILL read ______ this year." For some, it's Moby Dick. Others, War and Peace, or Ulysses. For many late-Boomers and Gen-Xers, the generation's most talked-about literary wonder was--and remains--David Foster Wallace's epic novel, Infinite Jest. I read it back in 2016. Then I read it again in… Continue reading New Year Must-Do’s Redux

Author/Poet J.A. Carter-Winward, Contraries and Contrasts, deconstruction, Featured Poet, Light and Dark, Poetry Crit, Poets, Proper-schmoper: Form and Formality, Subjective Experience, The Word, Vita Brevis, Writers, Writing Community

Under the Plum Tree—by Linda Lee Lyberg: A Deconstruction

J.A. Carter-Winward

This poem was originally published in Vita Brevis, and was chosen by the editor as a favorite, so I re-read it again today, and it still tugged at me the way it did when I first read it. It begged me to take it apart. Dismantling/deconstructing a poem is not as horrific or callous as… Continue reading Under the Plum Tree—by Linda Lee Lyberg: A Deconstruction