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Dewitt Henry: On Grace

Economy and naturalness,as in ballet, or basketball’s dunk,or skater’s twirl, leap and glide.Body’s flow seems effortless.Opposite of clumsy.halting, forced. Off balance.Yet both ideas combinein “graceful fall,” like thatpromised by self-pity.Richard Yates’s Walter Hendersonat nine prided himselfon losing toy gunfights:“the performer would stop, turn,and stand poised for a momentin graceful…

Dewitt Henry: On Grace

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DeWitt Henry: Forces of Nature | A Dream Retold

I was on a trip away from my family in Boston–wife, daughter, son–  to serve as staff for a writers’ conference in the California Sierras, near Lake Tahoe.  Though I had been on trips before, trips of body and of mind, I had never been so distant from my family and my teaching job before.  I was fifty-two.   Back home at this time, close friends of my wife were living a family tragedy.  Their…

DeWitt Henry: Forces of Nature | A Dream Retold