Re: the murderer’s problem
This English Department couldn’t have helped. Sheesh.
http://www.english.vt.edu/grad/faculty.htm
Wow! Plenty of gobbledgoop jargon in those resumes. A few of them seemed grounded, though. This one in particular:
Bob Hicok
Assistant Professor
I write poems and stories. I have little faith or interest in my thoughts on writing. Those who do a thing are often too close to be perceptive commentators, particularly where love is involved. I love writing, maybe most of all because it doesn’t matter, because poems don’t lift bridges or make refrigerators shinier. The nakedness of the endeavor—just one person, sitting at a desk, trying to express something they feel in a way that will allow others into their mind—may be among the most human things we do. We are the mouths of the world, and through poetry we speak.