Author Archives: Pearl

If one likes simple art, it is not that one is simple but complex. If one likes complex art, one is not complex but simple. That too is too simple. I think this was my understanding and recant of the simple view of you express how you are. No, you express how you aren’t, how […]

That all book sellers with sites online will add samples of each book. A line a paragraph, ideally a page, and I can tell something…Some novels do it. A table of contents is fine for a text book but for poetry, front and back covers and index is not useful. A cover, a price, a […]

The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin who is even more brilliant than I expected. How did I not encounter this intelligence before? A Book of Kells: growing up in an ego void by Margaret Kell Virany is the story of […]

Tom C. Hunley admits a preference for say it how it feels clearly in layman’s terms. He was asked by Robert Lee Brewer “In your opinion, what makes a good collection?” “Arranging poems into a collection is a lot like arranging lines into a poem. I think there should be the same kind of movement, […]

When someone writes a review, what is the target outcome? There are 5 audiences it serves: a) the editor who publishes it who needs copy that will engage readers b) the writer of the review who is engaging with the book, community and work c) the writer of the work being reviewed who gets feedback […]