Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
(By Peter Orner)
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Reading his mother's 1959 edition of Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind, he finds a single marginal comment from her: "YES." A brief poem by Robert Hayden about the destruction of a spider's web engenders thoughts about "how quickly something exquisite can become wreckage," but also that "there's no breaking free . . . from the contours of our lives." A story by James Alan McPherson about an old janitor who just wants to talk to someone reminds Orner of that strong desire: "Maybe something we say will stick and be remembered." Reading Yaakov Shabtai's novel Past Continuous leads him to think that "Minor characters don't know they're minor, until they do. And doesn't this, at some point, include us all?"
In Edward Lewis's The Pawnbroker a character says that he reads "to make it across the next half hour." The 105 pieces in Still No Word from You provide ample inspiration for those devoted to reading and will remind them of the importance of their own stories.”
