WEALTH OF IDEAS

I just finished reading Orhan Pamuk's essay "The Implied Author" in which he discusses his writing process. Having just reread Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" I liked Pamuk's reference to automatic writing, when the author makes himself available to a story that's raging to be written. Perhap not raging, but that which is within range. He concludes his short piece by arguing that just Wolfang Iser argued that each novel has an implied reader on account of whom it will reveal its meaning, there is also an implied author for each novel. Thus to "writer a novel is to open to [the work's available] desires, winds, and inspirations, and also to the dark recesses of our minds and their moments of mist and stillness". Pamuk's mention of the implied author got me thinkin again about Wolfang Iser's "implied reader" for each work. Then I realized that I have read many books, all of which have revealed their meaning as I read them, a me...

Terry a O'Neal As part of the CRC black history events, there will be a poetry reading in the Hawk's Nest Bookstore on campus, which brings together three of the most dynamic Sacramento Poets. Indigo Moor Indigo Moor, of the Taproot fame, Keith Aytch, Dean of Library and Information Services at Evergreen Valley College, who is a vibrant poetry performer/actor, and Terry a O'Neal, educator, poet, novelist, activist, mother, will meet on Monday, February 23 from 1 to 2:00 pm. I am hosting the reading. Keith Aytch