The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright
Leslie Silko, James Wright
ISBN: | 9780915308743 |
Publisher: | Graywolf Press |
Published: | 1 November, 1985 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright
Leslie Silko, James Wright
This tender volume follows the blossoming friendship through letters between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright and the then-young poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko. The charming correspondences, which unfurled over the final year and a half of Wright's life (1978-1980), are all about the difficulties and sweet pleasures of life, work, writing, and encounters with mean roosters. Silko considers the ways in which her work is imbued with the spirit of her Laguna Pueblo Indian heritage. Wright discusses the need to let a poem sit for a while before showing it to the world, as a poem "goes through changes ... when you leave it alone patiently, just as surely as a plant does, or an animal, or any other creature." Together they explore the catharsis of storytelling, the overwhelming power of words ("how deeply we can touch each other with them," writes Silko), and the beauty of a gentle yet passionate friendship between like-minded souls.
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