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Chargement... Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays (Writing Re: Writing)par Hayden Carruth
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Carruth has a few different methods of dealing with these parts of his life, he vacillates between talking about his education and his love affair with words and the English language - and can get quite abstruse, even boring, about this - and simple story-telling of his childhood and youth, a bit about growing up during the Depression and his service with the Army Air Corps as a cryptographer in Italy during WWII. And those latter things are fascinating, as are the parts about his wives, lovers, family and friends. When he keeps it simple, it's great. But when he tries to actually figure it all out and gets all philosophical on you, it's not so great. He also rubbed shoulders with quite a few famous poets during his time as an academic at Syracuse University towards the end of his life, but he doesn't do a lot of name-dropping. Of course, how famous are many poets, really?
Bottom line: Hayden Carruth lived a very interesting life. He had multiple demons - insanity, alcohol, insecurities galore, etc.- but he did the best he could in dealing with them, and in the process he managed to produce a couple dozen books of prose and poetry. He died in 2008 of complications from a series of strokes. I liked this book enough that I will try to read some of his poetry soon. And there's another book I might try sooner, called LETTERS TO JANE, a correspondence he had with poet Jane Kenyon during the last year of her troubled life. I already know a bit about her from having read Donald Hall's fine memoir, THE BEST DAY THE WORST DAY: LIFE WITH JANE KENYON. So yeah, I think I'd like to read Carruth's letters to her. And this book? No reluctance on my part. Highly recommended.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( )