In class last week, we talked a lot about the classic writing workshop distinction between showing and telling, and read Mark Doty’s essay, “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon” in which he tells us: “To think through things, that is the still life painter’s work— and the poet’s.”
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Thinking through things
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In class last week, we talked a lot about the classic writing workshop distinction between showing and telling, and read Mark Doty’s essay, “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon” in which he tells us: “To think through things, that is the still life painter’s work— and the poet’s.”