Tag Archives: Raymond Carver

Translating “Raymond Carver”

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Ellen Akins

So peculiar: Upon reading Rachel Cusk’s piece about parenting in the New York Times Magazine (no, the piece, not the parenting, was in the magazine) and encountering this: Raymond Carver’s disturbing poem, “On an Old Photograph of My Son,” an outpouring … Continue reading →

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Hemingway, Carver, Iceberg Principle Less Is More . . . Understood?

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Ellen Akins

One of my MFA students, doing one of the brief essays on craft we have our writers do at Fairleigh Dickinson, was writing about The Old Man and the Sea and cited Hemingway’s “Iceberg Principle” as he laid it out … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Raymond Carver

Translating “Raymond Carver”

Hemingway, Carver, Iceberg Principle Less Is More . . . Understood?

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