Healing Fictions

The virtual realities that works of literary and visual art provide us are loosely the concern of these essays. Working methods are touched upon in some as in my interviews with William Anastasi and Robert Kipniss. The intentionality of the artist however is never my concern nor should it be of interest to the reader; the intentions cannot necessarily be derived from the work (as the New Critics reminded us long ago). Rather to see and feel how the text or work of visual functions is our pleasant task. So we do not ask why a dead-end question. How is the question that can lead to infinitely more rewarding discoveries.