Andrea Morgan Davies
Human rights advocate with a knack for inter-contextually, a storyteller, a ceramists, a pan-arts lover, a feminist and a human-ist too.
Category Archives: Criticism
The Thing About David Shields is He’s Always Writing About Death
David Shields’ book, The Thing about Life is that One Day You Will Be Dead, bridges a harmony between intense academic structure and surprising narrative. Biological life cycle, literature, and historical fact act as massive levies shaping the story of a … Continue reading
Book Review of Sorts: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (#1)
David Sedaris is not for everyone. In fact, I would go as far as to say he is not for you. He may be a bit crude for your taste, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls ends with three words: ‘licks his … Continue reading
Posted in Book Recommendations, California, Criticism, Literature, Memoir
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Trimming: Finding Pleasure Triggers in the Fine-Tuning
I much prefer the fine-tuning the trimming of my mostly leather-hard clay pots Even glazing, after first fire bisque, excites me more Than dirty fingers slipping over lopsided lumps of clay Spinning pot after horribly deformed pot only to find … Continue reading
A Need to Move Beyond Myself
Escape this heavy chest A mind that worries and scatters like so much dust Displaced over stacks of books By neon yellow swiping feathers To gather myself To make sense of thought To understand love and anger, my own being … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Literature, Memoir, Poetic Fragments, Poetry
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Today
I thought I heard my father’s voice. It caught the air in my throat and turned solid, an unnamed ball there formed. I had to release the thing: before I choked. It was not my dad, and I don’t even … Continue reading
Posted in Art, California, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Poetic Fragments, Poetry, San Francisco
Tagged daughter, father, grief, loss
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A Story of Female Agency: The Revolt of “Mother”
Mary Ellen Wilkin Freeman’s short story The Revolt of “Mother” is a story of female agency. It is a story that sheds a sympathetic light on a woman’s struggles. Unlike most stories written before the Women’s Suffrage movement about woman’s … Continue reading
A Room of One’s Own: The Interruption Act
As far as my writing is concerned- I am aware of the obstacles set out in front of me, keeping me from writing the best work that I am capable of. Continue reading
Marianne & Juliane: A Film of Sisterhood
Von Trotta is rather fair in the scene where Wolfgang strikes Juliane. Before Wolfgang’s blow, Juliane is shown fully immersed in her own world of investigation mostly ignoring Wolfgang. When he finally does have her attention Juliane expresses her desire for a break in their relationship until she’s…
I can’t help but think that a women’s sensibility is ‘a-logical’ only because it is being measured by a man’s ‘logic.’ When the standard is male anything that diverts from this standard is ‘wrong’ or illogical- thus a woman’s logic by it’s very being non-male will be a-logical. Continue reading
