Notas del episodio
“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you live by. These are the words you live by. These words stay in your brain and guide your life. That's what I am interested in. My memoir slash autofiction is called Borges and Me, and as you know, it's a story of my time in 1970 when my best friend Billy was drafted for the Vietnam War, and so was I. He went to Vietnam, and I went to Scotland to hide out and do my graduate work. I spent nearly seven years in Scotland, but I certainly spent the next five years definitely in Scotland. I was there before as an undergraduate for a bit, too. During that time, Billy was killed in Vietnam, and I was a nervous wreck. My memoir talks about my depressi ...
Palabras clave
Poetry, Literary Arts, Memoir, Auto Fiction, Vietnam War, Scotland, Jorge Luis Borges, Depression, Filmmaking, Gore Vidal, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, Jesus, The Last Station, Albert Camus, Teaching, Persona, Spirituality, Nature, Social Justice, B