Bill Kimzey

Friday, September 5, 2014

Finished the (this) rewrite

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About two weeks ago I finished the rewrite.  Since then I've been going through the draft mostly to catch up to the way I handle tenses ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

More of the Richard Ford branch I pruned

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Thursday, June 21 In Ford’s book now, Frank is sitting at a bar browsing the pages of a free advertising rag, “The Buyer’s Guide,” and co...

Deleted one stranded branch of my tree

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Excerpts, now deleted, from my memoir.  (I do agree with Ford that some times simple words like surprised are the best we have.) Sunday, J...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Finished May rewrite

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It took me a long time to finish revising the month of April.  May went faster.  Now I start June.  The book will end in the middle of July ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Hoagland on Glück

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Glück's early poems are characterized by "imperial tone, and plain, relentless language. Glück issues forth her truth-statements wi...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Hoagland on Hass

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"Hass would like to avoid the regrettable crudity of being explicit; he would rather endlessly infer."  That sounds something like...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Hoagland on Pinsky

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I picked up Hoagland's Real Sofistikashun ;  I don't know why I ever put it down.  In Chapter 3 Hoagland gives Pinsky, Hass, Gluck ...
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