Jai Chakrabarti : A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Third Body in Relationship to Art Making
Before I came to fiction, I wrote in a studied poetry. One of the things that I came to appreciate from the lyric poem is this movement and search for the ineffable. And so that's the thing that you can't really quite say in words, but the poem is working toward it. Martha: You mentioned a poem by Robert Bly called the third body in relationship to art making. In relation to the way your stories and endings suggest this third body that it enmeshes two people or two forces. Is that what you mean when you've said in some conversations that your endings are one beat endings? The other beat is really for the reader to have that deeper intimacy with
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