Walker Percy The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind Bryan Helton 2017-10-08 | Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. was an American author from Covington, Louisiana, whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work displays a combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith.
Angelo Road: A Poem Bryan Helton 2024-09-24 | This is a reading of Angelo Road, a poem looking back to the long summers of childhood spent at my grandparents home. The poem is included in my collection, The Manic Joy of the Dead. Purchase here: https://a.co/d/0s9n6zuAngelo Roadstand once more in the gravel drivesee green gush of light raise golden domelost homestranded among oakswhat that year when you left this alive?summer of light's elysium hole of heaven wherethe bright comes inlost shineof pastlife so strikethe leaning barn to out and humthe dead may dwell in leaf stone skiesas honeysucklessay our summer is hereinitials engraved creak and swing and the see-saw risecicadas guiro where the departed playedthe bird under bricklook next summer in cageyellow-green he sangtell the story how the bones have stayedstay summer and pass peach of suneaten and it’s pitdropped in that gravegone westward it lit all the lifeyou could not save and time is what’s donewhat things grieving roam this way?midnight the night shrieksand laughs to frighttells joyof fear so givenstands delight and comes into daybirds yearn ecstatic sounds in blackat five dark six day-burst at sevenbut whenacorns and their headscome falling what of grin to lack?how burst of greenlight in face?Where mind to matterthe moss? But step backand closethe book - here is worldnow in passing and is your only place
James Dickey featured in Literary Visions Bryan Helton 2024-05-13 | A segment featuring poet James Dickey reading and discussing his poems "The Lifeguard" and "The Performance".
Cavender Creek - The Manic Joy of the Dead Bryan Helton 2023-02-04 | A poem from my collection, The Manic Joy of the Dead, which you can purchase here: amazon.com/Manic-Dead-Bryan-Edward-Helton/dp/B0B2HRPM4X
That Evening Red - The Manic Joy of the Dead Bryan Helton 2023-02-04 | A poem from my collection, The Manic Joy of the Dead, which you can purchase here: amazon.com/Manic-Dead-Bryan-Edward-Helton/dp/B0B2HRPM4X
Cottonwood - The Manic Joy of the Dead Bryan Helton 2023-01-28 | The first poem in my collection, The Manic Joy of the Dead, which you can purchase here: amazon.com/Manic-Dead-Bryan-Edward-Helton/dp/B0B2HRPM4X
The Forest Road A Poem Bryan Helton 2021-05-06 | The Forest RoadIHoneysuckle-white scatteredDappled lightThis green goes into the blood. The red clay ruts are hiddenbeneath the carpet of russet leaves.The tangled remains of a barbwire fenceare piercing the swollen gut of a sycamore.The timbrel-song of the cicada rises and subsides.Silence descends stillness births reverieIIThis fallen oak once held the hot stars in his grasp.One night twenty years agoI was stopped on my wayand looked up into his towering face.For a very long momentnothing nothing changed.And I heard these words:Here is a way to not die. IIIThat bronze summer moonstained my eyes.That one wind still whirlsbreathes those words in my ears. But now here in this later momentthe earth smells of mould the riot of decayThen the cicadas begin the final movementand the unstoppable dark is flooding in.
Kurt Vonnegut Interview The Writers Workshop @ University of South Carolina Bryan Helton 2021-04-23 | "Young writers are too polite....You have to be mean to characters; you have to make the worst thing happen." Vonnegut has an original solution to the problem for today's aspiring writers; this he offers along with a timeless formula for short-story writing and a variety of reflections from his own personal perspective.
William Styron Interview The Writers Workshop @ the University of South Carolina Bryan Helton 2021-04-23 | "Why one wants to be a writer is always a puzzle, because it doesn't offer the same rewards to everyone; it's something you have to do, I think." Styron recalls his beginnings as a writer of "not very good" short stories, and explains how his first novel came into being. Styron also examines the world of literature in general, bringing to light an "underground" American classic and making a surprising confession about his own reading tastes.
Agee: The Life and Work of James Agee Bryan Helton 2020-09-20 | James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision Bryan Helton 2018-08-21 | Evening HawkBY Robert Penn WarrenFrom plane of light to plane, wings dipping through Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds, Out of the peak's black angularity of shadow, riding The last tumultuous avalanche of Light above pines and the guttural gorge, The hawk comes. His wing Scythes down another day, his motion Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear The crashless fall of stalks of Time. The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error. Look! Look! he is climbing the last light Who knows neither Time nor error, and under Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings Into shadow. Long now, The last thrush is still, the last bat Now cruises in his sharp hieroglyphics. His wisdom Is ancient, too, and immense. The star Is steady, like Plato, over the mountain. If there were no wind we might, we think, hear The earth grind on its axis, or history Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.Robert Penn Warren, (born April 24, 1905, Guthrie, Ky., U.S.—died Sept. 15, 1989, Stratton, Vt.), American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986.In 1921 Warren entered Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., where he joined a group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives (q.v.). Warren was among several of the Fugitives who joined with other Southerners to publish the anthology of essays I’ll Take My Stand (1930), a plea for the agrarian way of life in the South.After graduation from Vanderbilt in 1925, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., 1927), and at Yale. He then went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. From 1930 to 1950 he served on the faculty of several colleges and universities—including Vanderbilt and the University of Minnesota. With Cleanth Brooks and Charles W. Pipkin, he founded and edited The Southern Review (1935–42), possibly the most influential American literary magazine of the time. He taught at Yale University from 1951 to 1973. His Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943), both written with Cleanth Brooks, were enormously influential in spreading the doctrines of the New Criticism (q.v.).Warren’s first novel, Night Rider (1939), is based on the tobacco war (1905–08) between the independent growers in Kentucky and the large tobacco companies. It anticipates much of his later fiction in the way it treats a historical event with tragic irony, emphasizes violence, and portrays individuals caught in moral quandaries. His best-known novel, All the King’s Men (1946), is based on the career of the Louisiana demagogue Huey Long and tells the story of an idealistic politician whose lust for power corrupts him and those around him. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and, when made into a film, won the Academy Award for best motion picture of 1949. Warren’s other novels include At Heaven’s Gate (1943); World Enough and Time (1950), which centres on a controversial murder trial in Kentucky in the 19th century; Band of Angels (1956); and The Cave (1959). His long narrative poem, Brother to Dragons (1953), dealing with the brutal murder of a slave by two nephews of Thomas Jefferson, is essentially a versified novel, and his poetry generally exhibits many of the concerns of his fiction. His other volumes of poetry include Promises: Poems, 1954–1956; You, Emperors, and Others (1960); Audubon: A Vision (1969); Now and Then; Poems 1976–1978; Rumor Verified (1981); Chief Joseph (1983); and New and Selected Poems, 1923–1985 (1985). The Circus in the Attic (1948), which included “Blackberry Winter,” considered by some critics to be one of Warren’s supreme achievements, is a volume of short stories, and Selected Essays (1958) is a collection of some of his critical writings.Besides receiving the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Warren twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1958, 1979) and, at the time of his selection as poet laureate in 1986, was the only person ever to win the prize in both categories. In his later years he tended to concentrate on his poetry. - Britannica.comThis documentary was directed and produced by Tom Thurman for Kentucky Educational Television (KET)
James Dickey Interview - The Writers Workshop @ the University of South Carolina Bryan Helton 2018-04-28 | ...
Shelby Foote Indepth 3 Hour Interview Bryan Helton 2017-10-16 | Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote did all his writing by hand with a nib pen, later transcribing the result into a typewritten copy.
