A smiling white woman (Abby Manzella) with long hair and glasses is pictured in the lower right corner of the picture, with a quote from her article on the left. The quote reads, "We’ve also discussed the powerful distillation of language and ideas in flash… in Gay's "Hole in the Head” his seemingly small pleasure of hearing the titular vernacular phrase eventually becomes both the symbolic and literal topic of the piece.
This wandering linguistic association creates a sense of movement that is meditative/assaying as well as lyric.
This analysis adds to the class’s growing understanding that there is more than one way to tell their stories—that creative nonfiction isn’t just about moving from point A to point B or sharing what happened.
In Search of Delight (à la Ross Gay) at the Art Museum:
A Writing Exercise with Pen in Hand
Abby Manzella
Assay 11.1 (Fall 2024)
Ross Gay offers a blueprint for delight and craft for Abby Manzella and her nonfiction class at Truman State University in this fall's issue of Assay.
Read Manzella’s thoughts at the link below:
tinyurl.com/2mnsv6kz
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