All of us need to learn how to step away from the controls when we write first drafts or take on deep revisions.This essay speaks to the need for and importance of letting go.
My daughter is screaming in the next room because she wants her father to give her something he is not willing to let her have. Her little voice has swelled and stretched so it now seems to be something she could, if she wanted, ride down the stairs and out the front door of our building. I want! I hear her say, the a of it opening up into a wide, flat surface, while the anger winds and unwinds itself like the engine of a well-built vehicle. I waaaant!
When I first started writing poems seriously, I remember longing for that kind of unappeasable need, longing to tap into something capable of causing so much internal unrest I’d have to step aside and let it have its way. I didn’t have my daughter’s sense of purpose, perhaps, or her innocent belief in the veracity of her own need and the…
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Smith’s line about the writer attempting to slip out of this life or deeply enough into resonates. Does art imitate life or the other way around? Nicely voiced, Ms. Smith! Thanks for pointing us to this blog, Jill.