Creative Writing Week 3

As you saw from my previous posting about a dream I had after the class discussion on Lisa Olstein's Poem, entitled Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, it was to some sort of extreme. I find that Olstein's ability to write in the non-tense works to her advantage. Virtually any reader can relate to the poem with something, mostly stemming from a disaster -- or cause and effect moment. Could she have been recollecting from personal experience or perhaps something she say on the news? Ms. Olstein seems to use hypnosis and recollection practices when writing poetry, something similar to Aldous Huxley who wrote Brave New World. This would be a creative approach to a descriptive piece of prose. Not much was available online, other than her myspace account.

Links: MySpace