Journal of the Fictive Life Author:Howard Nemerov "The only way out," writes Howard Nemerov, "is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present--henceforth?--the subject to which you are condemned." This is the record of the struggle to compose a novel; a struggle transformed b... more »y Nemerov into a far-reaching exploration of the creative process itself.« less