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Kelly Scott Franklin 8. February 27, Peter M. Stravinskas 4. A wonderful writer. On the other, however, it was enigmatic. But also her theology, her violence, her precision. Her cartooning and lampooning. Her philosophical density. Her incisiveness of style. Her existential mystery and her earthy everydayness.
The prescience of her essays. Her epistolary output. The books are recommended as they might be best read, all at once over several dark months of the soul. Immerse yourself first and then dress your wounds later. They are also some of her hardest and most unwavering, filled with all manner of casual violence and cruelty, the relentless critique of genteel Southern living, humor so dark you can barely see through it, razor-wire dramatic tension, masterful sketch characterizations and more.
The daughter could not see far in front of her and continued to play with her fingers. She was also an avid cartoonist — see and read about some of her original drawings here, which indicate her excellent knack for characters. However, she mainly kept in-person company with her beloved birds. She had a fondness for fowls since she was 5, when she discovered one of her chickens could walk backwards.
Later, her collection expanded to include several mail-ordered peacocks. Although she travelled to give public lectures, she mostly spent her remaining years writing in near-isolation on the family farm in rural Georgia.
She remains one of the most notable writers to depict different types of disability in literature , and spoke publicly about her own condition. Things get grim after that. Henry Prize in In May, , she wrote to her friend Maryat Lee, a playwright who was born in Tennessee, lived in New York, and was ardent for civil rights:. Very ignorant but never silent.
Baldwin can tell us what it feels like to be a Negro in Harlem but he tries to tell us everything else too. My question is usually would this person be endurable if white. If Baldwin were white nobody would stand him a minute.
I prefer Cassius Clay. Too much talk about hate. It would cause the greatest trouble and disturbance and disunion. In New York it would be nice to meet him; here it would not. Might as well expect a mule to fly as me to see James Baldwin in Georgia. I have read one of his stories and it was a good one.
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