Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Monday, September 21, 2015

Praise and Lament, Part 9: The Dialectic of Praise and Lament

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Now I’d like to turn to another aspect of praise and lament: the unexpected links between these two seeming opposites. We saw in Yehuda Am...

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Praise and Lament, Part 8: Praise of Common Things in Neruda’s “Ode to Salt”

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The next poem of praise I’d like to talk about is by the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who lived from 1904 to 1973. Neruda is probably ...

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Praise and Lament, Part 7: Mary Oliver's hymn of praise, "Happiness"

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The next work of praise I'm going to discuss is a poem I love, “Happiness” by the late U.S. writer Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem ...

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Praise and Lament, Part 6: Praise in Yehuda Amichai and Gerard Manley Hopkins

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So, now we’re going to move from the valley of lament to the plateau of praise. In many ways, praise is the more difficult mode to write w...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Praise and Lament, Part 5: Indirect Lament in Wislawa Szymborska’s “Cat in an Empty Apartment”

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In this blog I'd like to talk about what I would call “indirect lament,” or a kind of mourning for loss that is not obvious. As an exa...

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Zack Rogow: Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2026 by Zack Rogow.

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