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Jul.08.2009 - 10:35 am
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS
Author's Intro This is an intensely autobiographical, possibly even narcissistic piece. If anyone sticks with it and finds something universal in it, I'll be pleased. It was a...
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Mar.25.2009 - 10:13 am
Becoming a Poet
Cover, YOUNG MAN GONE WEST, 1983
BECOMING A POET 1. In college I never understood poetry. Certain distant acquaintances walked around in what appeared to be a kind of haze. People spoke of them, with a kind of...
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Mar.07.2009 - 3:16 pm
ODE TO WALKING AND SINGING
ODE TO WALKING AND SINGING (a poem) Someday I'll set off walking and singing a Holy Nameand never come backbecause there's nothing like it,small body under a great sky,walking...
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Feb.28.2009 - 9:30 am
FDR: Larger Than Life, Except That He Lived!
What a story for a writer! And yet, to my knowledge, it's not yet the subject of a novel, a major movie drama, or a play*. And it's been more than half a century since the curtain...
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Feb.22.2009 - 1:48 pm
In response to: Oscars
ps:
We just watched a 4-part PBS (from 1994) bio of FDR. What a story his life was! Scarcely even need a "dramatic"...
Feb.22.2009 - 1:46 pm
In response to: Oscars
Oscars
Haven't seen a one, this year...probably a combination of the prices and the fact that my wife has allergies that make...
Feb.22.2009 - 1:40 pm
In response to: Do we all live on Revolutionary Road?
Revolutionary Road
It seems you're saying Revolutionary Road is a state of mind. I'd like to know a little more explicitly what that state...
Feb.16.2009 - 6:24 pm
In response to: JUST BACK FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO WRITER'S CONFERENCE, 2009
To Linda
thanks! Yeah, it DOES work!I gotta write on something else next time; maybe the work we do...there's a saga of my...
Feb.16.2009 - 1:32 pm
In response to: JUST BACK FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO WRITER'S CONFERENCE, 2009
Congratulations, Shana!...
On being the FIRST person to EVER reply to a blog of mine on this site...or in fact, EVER! (I have an extensive website...
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About Max

I scarcely know where to begin. Somehow, I just crossed the threshhold of my sixty-first birthday. Inside I've felt like twenty-one, mosly. I've been writing seriously--and playfully--since a pair of powerful spiritual awakenings in my twenties showed me that...
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