A locus through which intensities pass

Hey Writer,
What forms you?

Lidia Yuknavitch, author The Chronology of Water — a fierce, poetic and painful memoir — has some very clear ideas:

1.
I think gender and sexuality are territories of possibility. Nevermind what we've been told or what the choices appear to be. Inside artistic practice the possibilities open back up.

2.
I think narrative is quantum.

3.
I think the writer is a locus through which intensities pass.

4.
I think literature is that which fights back against the oppressive scripts of socialization and good citizenship.

5.
I think the space of making art is freedom of being.

6.
I think things that happen to us are true. Writing is a whole other body.

7.
I believe in art the way other people believe in god.

 — from Lidia Yuknavitch's website

Comments

[Tracy]

Hear Hear! Thanks for sharing this Drew! The ideas ARE very clear.

[Drew]

Hi Tracy -
I like No. 5 on the list: "making art is freedom." Makes me think of you, and your paintings.

Thanks for stopping in.

[Fred]

What a nice way of sharing God.

[Drew]

Hey Fred -
I never thought of it like that. But now that you say it, of course it rings true. Thanks for reading, and responding.

[Molly Spencer]

I love this list! #3 feels absolutely true to me, and I'm heartened by "I think literature is that which fights back against the oppressive scripts of socialization and good citizenship." Literature as a tool for social change. Thanks for sharing this list!

[Drew]

You're welcome Molly. Lidia is something else. I'm reading her memoir now and it is pow! -- searing stuff.

[Jeanne]

Searing is right--very powerful words and images. Really love "locus through which intensities pass." Thanks for finding and sharing!