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This Is How I Speak , a memoir in diary form, is an intimate portrait of a young woman's first year in graduate school as a student of dance and creative writing at the University of Washington during the late 1980s. The book explores a number of themes, including complex relationships,... read more
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“The university brochure says St. Helens's twin, Mount Rainier, is visible from nearly all the buildings on campus. I try to decide whether to add erupting volcanoes to my list of fears. Still, I can understand why a mountain may occasionally need to blow its top. Perhaps it fears complacency as much as I do -- decides to stir up the wildlife and human fauna a bit to remind them not to take its existence for granted. "I am here," the mountain says, feeling a deep stirring somewhere within its fiery belly. "This is how I speak."”
Setting & Locations edit
- University of Washington: This book is directly based on the journal the author kept during her first year in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Washington in Seattle.
First Sentence edit
September 10, 1987. I know all about fear. I fear dogs, horses, sharks, snakes, most seafood, farts, hairy men, earthquakes, hurricanes, and flash floods. Basically, anything that can sneak up and surprise me. I'm afraid of failure, growing old, gaining weight, the whole concept of motherhood, and insurance salesman. But most of all, I'm terrified of complacency, the fear that I might settle for what I have simply because I'm afraid of so much else. I know that I have reached that moment when I get a terrifying feeling that my insides have been bleached white, parched and dry and empty of all ideas.
Table of Contents edit
1. Acknowledgements
2. Preface
3. Autumn
4. Winter
5. Spring
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sandi Sonnenfeld (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Impassio Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: June 2002
ISBN: 0971158312
Page Count: 168
Publisher: Impassio Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: June 2002
ISBN: 0971158312
Page Count: 168
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 818.603
Subjects edit
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Entertainers
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Dancers
- Books › Arts & Photography › Performing Arts › Dance
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Authors
- Books › Entertainment
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