> Can anyone point me to some good writing on the short story genre?
> Joanna
I was reading some of Seamus Haney's poems yesterday and today. He wrote a book of essays, Preoccupations, which I haven't read. It might be helpful.
D was over and read a few of his poems yesterday. I wasn't that impressed at first, but changed my mind. Try Casualty and Death of a Naturalist and see. The last one struck me as amazingly funny. The former gives you some idea about what I mean by a portrait.
A theory. Sometimes poets and playwrights have more helpful things to say than writers and critics. Maybe it's the crafts, the reduction of elements.
CG