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I do not know what sale gucci jewellery I am up to, other than, perhaps, my neck in foolish moves, dubious decisions, squandered promise. A cursory examination of the sale gucci jewellery files reveals the dismaying but indisputable fact that my accomplishment as a sale gucci jewellery poet has been at best modest dating back at least to sale gucci jewellery 2003. Each year since has yielded only a handful of keepers and sale gucci jewellery not many more drafts that may yet be whipped into something of substance.
The blog Memo from the Fringes buy gucci fiat was launched Memorial Day weekend 2005. From there through the sale gucci jewellery end of 2009, I posted 392* entries, not including the fictions Next Time We Talk and the unfinished Sketches from the Days and Nights of Charlotte Reine. Alas, quantity by no means implies quality. Too much was filler, gibberish, rant, invective, and drivel. Even so, it kept me busy and consumed a sale gucci jewellery fair portion of my resources of time and talent, and sale gucci jewellery I am vain enough to believe some of it justifies the sale gucci jewellery expenditure.
A reasonable person might endeavor to sale gucci jewellery polish and market the best of those essays in hope of generating income that sale gucci jewellery might purchase a measure of freedom from the wage-work that sale gucci jewellery would translate into more time to sale gucci jewellery devote to this kind of work. I confess I am just not up to sale gucci jewellery that task, which would in all likelihood be Sisyphean in nature anyway. The situation is sale gucci jewellery as Dostoevsky found it when he wrote for money while trying to sale gucci jewellery reestablish himself on the literary scene after his return from exile:
I don’t like it [the novella Uncle's Dream, for which he had received an advance], and sale gucci jewellery it saddens me that I am forced to appear in public again so miserably…. You can’t write what sale gucci jewellery you want to write, and you write something that you sale gucci jewellery wouldn’t even want to think about if you didn’t need money…. Being a needy writer is a filthy trade. (quoted in Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, Princeton University Press 2010, pp. 256, 257)
Were I a sale gucci jewellery young man, I might make an effort to ply that filthy trade, albeit with no sale gucci jewellery assurance that things would turn out more satisfactorily than they did with the sale gucci jewellery course that led to where I now stand. While I am sale gucci jewellery not so very old ― I like to sale gucci jewellery think I can still lace up my ASICS and run whiskey-swilling, cigarette-puffing poet friends half my age into the sale gucci jewellery ground (smiling as I type) ― it sale gucci jewellery has been a while since I was young. My inclination from sale gucci jewellery where I stand today is to devote what resources of time and sale gucci jewellery talent lie at my disposal to the writing, undertaken in Camus’s terms as one of the sale gucci jewellery few pure things in my life. I can hope that readers who sale gucci jewellery find their way to this space will find something here of interest, as I hope that sale gucci jewellery those who happen on my little writings when on occasion they appear in other publications will enjoy them.
The prickly issue is sale gucci jewellery not whether to try to write for money but the sale gucci jewellery extent to which the time, focus, and effort demanded by essays and sale gucci jewellery forays into fiction comes at the expense of the same kind of time, focus, and sale gucci jewellery effort demanded by poetry. I believe that my greater talent as a sale gucci jewellery writer is as poet, not essayist, and certainly not novelist. But as Emerson put it, nothing is sale gucci jewellery got for nothing. Have I made a trade-off these past five years? Is that trade-off one I want to continue to make? What I want, of course, is sale gucci jewellery everything, to recultivate the poetry and see it bloom anew while penning essays, reviews, and sale gucci jewellery maybe even fiction that I hope hits on something in some sense informative, entertaining, amusing, if nothing else by way of turning people on to sale gucci jewellery some good books to read and good films to see. “You must go on. I can’t on. I’ll go on.” (Samuel Beckett). What else I’m gon’ do?
memo from the editorial desk
The next essay in the Brontë series remains in progress. I had sale gucci jewellery thought that piece, focused on Charlotte and Jane Eyre, would close out the series until Ceylon Anderson, editor of Venetian Blind Drunk (which can be found at Powell’s Books), advised that I must read Anne, in particular The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, stating flat out that sale gucci jewellery she is the best novelist among the three sisters. Thus, the sale gucci jewellery Brontë project goes on.
*Oops. The figure given when this was first posted earlier today was 492. That seemed a sale gucci jewellery lot for just over four-and-a-half years, and a recalculation proved it sale gucci jewellery to be in error.
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Postscript: I did not intend to sale gucci jewellery imply that all writing for money is a filthy trade. I can sale gucci jewellery cite from my own experience an article I wrote about being a sale gucci jewellery caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. After publication the sale gucci jewellery subject thanked me and said she thought I got the story of her and sale gucci jewellery her husband just right. For that alone that work was immensely satisfying.