Going - Matzen, Jr. Richard N.
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Going's narrative poetry immerses the reader into the world of the Los Angeles commute and shares the story of a fifty-year-old commuter who stops the commute, joins park life, and experiences jazz, the landscape, and his parents' deaths. During the summer of 2010, in other words, while commuting, Going's narrator re-experiences writing poetry and recalling past days of listening to jazz and blues, and bebop players. Then, he begins to stop regularly at a large Los Angeles park and interrupts his commuting with writing more poetry. Unwittingly, at first, he joins park life and feels its…mehr

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Going's narrative poetry immerses the reader into the world of the Los Angeles commute and shares the story of a fifty-year-old commuter who stops the commute, joins park life, and experiences jazz, the landscape, and his parents' deaths. During the summer of 2010, in other words, while commuting, Going's narrator re-experiences writing poetry and recalling past days of listening to jazz and blues, and bebop players. Then, he begins to stop regularly at a large Los Angeles park and interrupts his commuting with writing more poetry. Unwittingly, at first, he joins park life and feels its tension with commuter life. Los Angeles commuters typically travel one-to-a-car and seem to believe they're always going to places even when stuck in traffic jams! But, park visitors usually come with a group and connect more intimately to each other in the park. So, as Going's narrator lives in this conflicted world, he also displaces himself into recollections of growing up in the Midwest, and he comes to terms with the death of both his parents that summer. In short, the tensions between the need to stay in one place and never totally being in one place makes Going into a personal story with vivid pictures of Los Angeles life in the commute and at a park.
Autorenporträt
After growing up in Bluffton, Indiana, Richard Matzen-inspired by artists and jazz musicians- published poems, poetry books, and jazz articles in the Pacific Northwest during the 1980s. Then, in order to pay the bills, he earned academic degrees and fostered teaching success. Eventually, his expertise in writing and teaching meant he created a writing center and writing department at Woodbury University in Burbank, California. At the same time, but after 30 years, his desire to write poetry rekindled itself to the point that in 2009, he began writing Going, a chapbook that he completed in 2014. Now, Going's narrator, though images and commuting, tells a story about Los Angeles and the tensions between the need to stay in one place and never being totally in one place.