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...University of Pennsylvania, says Peshe C. Kuriloff '69, director of Writing Across the University there, students can choose between a seminar offered by a professor or high-level graduate student and writing-intensive sections in two courses anywhere in the curriculum...
...quot;We are really talking about peril," Kuriloff says in the living room of her Brentwood apartment. She is an intense, frail-looking, girlish woman of 39 who moves about when she speaks, dashing to the bookshelf to verify a remembered fragment of poetry, changing chairs to find one whose compass bearing on the conversation is exactly right. When she listens, she cocks her head, nods emphatically -"Yes, yes, yes!"-leans forward in sympathy, sits back in surprise and pleasure, claps her hands...
...describing a ghastly scene, the desolate interior landscape of the becalmed writer. This bedeviled soul feels stupid, worthless, paralyzed; he is in a state of panic and isolation; he feels a terrible sense of impending disaster. "And in this situation the Critic is remorseless." That is Kuriloffs central perception: most people who write anything at all must deal, sooner or later, with a hostile, censorious inner voice. It will say, for example, "You must finish, and you don't have enough time." Or "You can't do it, you're no good, and everyone will find...
...quot;Kuriloff is a poet who has been published in the Atlantic. But it was the agony of writing scholarly essays as a Ph.D. candidate in education at the University of California at Berkeley that led her to try to help other people. In college she was an expert player of the academic game, a great winner of praise and fellowships. Such accomplishments did not prevent her from feeling, as she once wrote, that each writing assignment was "a blankness, a barrier, a kind of enemy." She bested her enemy often enough to be able to do well...
...soothingly, Kuriloff goes on talking. − By John Skow