Writing is one of the most complex creative human experience, By words only, one should convene feelings and sounds and images. Just like this, by knitting words together and melting them into the pot of imagination.
Literary diaries written by authors themselves may enlightens us, the readers, about the sparkle that is added to the sometimes long and mentally demanding writing process. This is what Amina Cain´s A Horse at Night, On Writing it is mostly about.
I didn´t have the chance yet to read other books by her, but I can´t wait to check by myself how she put into practice the art of writing in images and landscapes. I am always mesmerized about the strength of words to convene images and trying to trace the intellectual exercise leading to it is both inspiring and motivating - particularly if you are stuck with your ´other´ writing for years already.
But writing means not only building up with words. It also means sharing one´s identity challenges and changes, in the vein of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi or essentializing the written expression for a meaningful wording reality, like in the works of Lydia Davis, both authors an inspiration for Cain. And I definitely share the interest in artistic insertions into the writing stories, with paintings being another meta level of creativity worth to consider.
A Horse at Night is an important source for both writers and translators, looking to expand their writing skills and emotional outreach. And I can´t wait to read her Indelicacy, already on my ´emergency´ TBR, together with other hundreds of books.
Rating: 5 stars
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