If you read his work, you’ll find he is keenly sensitive to the fact that many voices haven’t been heard because they are different or not within traditional circles of power. Third, he advised that she “separate herself from the familiar.” After exploring other places and meeting a diversity of people, she`ll know why she loves the familiar and share this knowledge through her writing.Įarly on, Lopez felt he was noticed, accepted, and rewarded as a writer in part because he was white, male, privileged and well educated.
Second, she must “become someone” and “speak to us from within those beliefs.” She should read the classics, too, but she’ll have to work harder to find stories of heroism, love, and our noblest values that are written by women. She must read, and her choices should be whatever she is drawn to. In the introduction to his essay collection About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory, Barry Lopez tells of meeting a man on a plane who asked what words of advice he could pass on to his teen-age daughter, who wanted to be a writer. Here is my third and final reposting of my Barry Lopez Books Can Save a Life writings, in honor of his passing on December 25, 2020:
– Barry Lopez About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory, Barry Lopez Suspended as listeners and readers in these patterns, we might reimagine our lives…As long as it took for me to see that a writer’s voice had to grow out of his own knowledge and desire, that it could not rise legitimately out of the privilege of race or gender or social rank, so did it take time to grasp the depth of cruelty inflicted upon all of us the moment voices are silenced, when for prejudicial reasons people are told their stories are not valuable, not useful. Stories…offer patterns of sound and association, of event and image.
0 kommentar(er)
