#wendyswalters

[erincp]

Details were comforting.

Wendy S. Walters, Lonely in America, in The Fire This Time

[erincp]

... I realized that my loneliness has deeper roots than I had initially suspected, and that, in addition to personal disappointments, it cam from having a profound sense of disconnection from what I thought America was, and who, in that context, I knew myself to be.

Wendy S. Walters, Lonely in America, in The Fire This Time

[erincp]

..to become free from disappointment one must acknowledge the obvious, and then learn to live with is.

Wendy S. Watlers, Lonely in America, in The Fire This Time

[erincp]

The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image.

Wendy S. Walters, Lonely in America, in The Fire This Time

[randybwinston]

“When you open a book a conversation begins between the author and you, the reader. Responsibility is a weight thrown upon the writer's back, but very seldom the reader's. While an argument can be made about the role of author-reader, what can't be denied is that Honesty is at the core of this fellowship. What makes Multiply Divide a brilliant work is not only the exquisite, seamless collision of personal, prose poetry, and fiction; it is also Wendy S. Walters' decision to be brutally honest. Though at first glance Walters is figuratively naked, exposed on the page, she has actually challenged you, the reader, to be vulnerable, to be honest with yourself. Because if this, the relationship between author and reader, is to go the distance, the measure of truth must be self imposition.” 

- Randy Brown Winston