[Xmca-l] Re: Kozol's writing place
HENRY SHONERD
hshonerd@gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 15:43:25 PDT 2015
After I sent you the email, it occurred to me that Kozol’s writing process involved the collaboration of others, so the interview resonated with Vera’s Creative Collaboration as well.
> On Aug 22, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks Henry. I kept thinking of Vera's book as well I was watching it.
> RL
> On Aug 22, 2015 1:04 PM, "HENRY SHONERD" <hshonerd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Robert,
>> The whole half hour interview is worth a whole lot! Thank you! Things I
>> especially liked: His sharing of the artifacts, his messy method, and , of
>> course, the place where he writes.( Larry Purss just shared an article on
>> Meade that cites the trascendetalists of 19th Century America, who I
>> associate with the very kind of New England house where Kozol writes.) All
>> of the interview reminded me of Vera John Steiner’s Notebooks of the Mind
>> on the creative process. And the importance of lived experience Who
>> couldn’t love the guy? And they fired him!
>> Henry
>>
>>> On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> The first 12 minutes of th
>>> e program linked below
>>> are worth watching
>>> because shed light on Kozol's creative process of writing and reveal
>> some
>>> of the sources of his inspiration to write.
>>> Langston Hughes sent Kozol an
>>> autographed
>>> photo
>>> of himself
>>>
>>> after
>>>
>>> Kozol
>>> was fired
>>> from his first teaching job
>>> for reading one of
>>> Hughes'
>>> poems in a high school English class.
>>>
>>> Kozol
>>> says reading Rilke, Yeats and Auden are his soul foo
>>> d and
>>> he was also a personal friend of Mister Rogers.* Who knew?*
>>> http://www.c-span.org/video/?288596-2/jonathan-kozol-writing-books.
>>>
>>> Robert Lake Ed.D.
>>> Associate Professor
>>> Social Foundations of Education
>>> Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
>>> Georgia Southern University
>>> Secretary/Treasurer-AERA- Paulo Freire Special Interest Group
>>> P. O. Box 8144
>>> Phone: (912) 478-0355
>>> Fax: (912) 478-5382
>>> Statesboro, GA 30460
>>> *He not busy being born is busy dying.*
>>> Bob Dylan (1964).
>>
>>
>>
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