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Tethered
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Emotionally raw, poetic dad-hood ruminations.
A frank unflinching mirror against a father and son relationship. Reminiscent of ‘This Be The Verse’ By Philip Larkin with drops of Bukowski's ‘Ham On Rye’.
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What is good writing?
It doesn't arduously expose every detail with so much intimacy and detail, that the author's internal creative is made indiscriminately real.
Well placed vivid emotional markers, signposts and a trail are laid by the author. So, when you pick it up, your own memory and experience become the stories heart, filling in, on cue. A good writer is like an orchestrator and great musician. Like BB King, it’s the space left between the notes, to be imagined as your own, and colours created in the audience that define the utmost composition by the artist.
The hearer and reader interpret the final strokes.
This is Tethered.
Emotionally tailored (and tethered) to the reader from the first flash.
It’s poetry.
I cried, laughed and smiled. Happy, nervous and uneasy. Probably at all the wrong points. But, it allowed me to do that. So well written - it became my world.
A frank unflinching mirror against a father and son relationship. Reminiscent of ‘This Be The Verse’ By Philip Larkin with drops of Bukowski's ‘Ham On Rye’.
——
What is good writing?
It doesn't arduously expose every detail with so much intimacy and detail, that the author's internal creative is made indiscriminately real.
Well placed vivid emotional markers, signposts and a trail are laid by the author. So, when you pick it up, your own memory and experience become the stories heart, filling in, on cue. A good writer is like an orchestrator and great musician. Like BB King, it’s the space left between the notes, to be imagined as your own, and colours created in the audience that define the utmost composition by the artist.
The hearer and reader interpret the final strokes.
This is Tethered.
Emotionally tailored (and tethered) to the reader from the first flash.
It’s poetry.
I cried, laughed and smiled. Happy, nervous and uneasy. Probably at all the wrong points. But, it allowed me to do that. So well written - it became my world.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
May 28, 2020
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