Two Roads Wonder in a Wood

Authors

  • Alexander Hicks Emory University Author

Keywords:

poetry, Norman Mailer, Gustave Flaubert, the writer’s life, creativity

Abstract

In this short poem, Norman Mailer’s changing responses over the years to Flaubert’s advice to be orderly in life and violent and original in work are imagined.

Author Biography

  • Alexander Hicks, Emory University

    Alexander Hicks is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Emory University and author/co-author of several books, including Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism (Cornell, 1999) and The Handbook of Political Sociology (Cambridge, 2004), plus numerous papers in leading social science journals, The Mailer Review, and Poetics, and was 2003-2006 inaugural co-editor of The Socioeconomic Review (Oxford). He exchanged several dozen letters with Norman Mailer during 1983-2006.

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Published

2019-10-10

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Hicks, Alexander. “Two Roads Wonder in a Wood”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, p. 275, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/715.