Rather Than Crap Decisions

In this personal reflective essay, I try to explore some of the most pertaining facets of my writing career over more than two decades to date. Including and interweaving extracts of prose fiction and of verse, I examine the trajectory of my writerly motives across all the different genres of my writing career, whether in academic writing, literary journalism, poetry or prose fiction. The common denominator and the common sense that undergirds, I realize in retrospect, all my writerly endeavors is a riveted relationship to the English language itself. Part of my argument in this autobiographical reflective article is thus that by way of my vocation as a writer what feels like my truest ‘autobiography’ emerges from my writerly choices of configuration. A writerly life is limned in brief here as a life embedded in the necessary and inescapable choices a writer makes as part of a lifelong quest evinced by his evolving poetics

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