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Text: Fiction, plays, poetry, songs

Writer Statement

I agree with John Gardner that the writing of fiction is the "creation of a vivid and continuous dream." To write, one enters this dream state and allows one's characters to inhabit one's being and to speak through one.

My fiction influences are diverse and range from 19th-century traditionalists like Henry James, Edith Wharton and George Gissing to 20th-century modernists like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and postmodernists like Donald Barthelme.

Fiction

• Annunciation After a painting.
• The Divorce A brief conundrum.
• The Manuscript of Jacob Hall Why write fiction? What is it "for"?

Plays

• Cage Advice: Constrain Altitudes A conversation between three clowns.

Poetry

• Rugosas, or Something of That Sort After a poem by Ezra Pound.

Songs

• Answer
• State of the Onion
• Story of a Man