Heather Momyer   

Claim 1. There is a convergence between art and reality and this is an argument that has existed for quite some time. Claim 2. All speaking and personal communications are creative and authorial acts. Claim 3. All forms of listening and spectatorship of personal communicative acts are interpretive acts. It thus follows that the world of personal and biographical and therefore real is not completely distinct from authorship, creativity, and the therefore fictional world. All communicative acts become part of a body of work and are fair game when it comes to usage for interpretation. I say this knowing that a piece of creative writing does not necessarily correspond directly to events in the author’s life and I do not attempt to deny the author’s creativity and ability to imagine. However, arguing that biographical and personal readings limit the possibilities of a text is invalid because I believe that all interpretations and readings limit the possibility of a text. The personal reading is not alone in this weakness. This argument is made through a study of the work of Rebbecca Brown and through an analysis of my own personal reading experience. The following is also a love letter. I begin…

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