Tag: David Herrle

  • The Skinny on the Parable of the Seawall

    For the past two months or so I’ve been working on two books simultaneously which is a first for me. “Working Through the Holocaust” is a work in progress, a grouping of stories that have come “easily” to me as if I had to rid myself of excess somewhere in…

  • Guest Reviewer: Jane Freese

    Abyssinia, Jill Rush poems by David Herrle Herrle’s poetry swims through feelings and memories of a girl from his childhood, the merciless ticking of watches, hair that flows and grows, failure, tears, death, the bustle of cities, silent paintings, the shadows of classic movie stars, laughter — and rain. Abyssinia,…

  • I Just Realized

    Reading Freud of late has reawakened, I suppose, the dormant analytic tools I used as a psychotherapist. It has me thinking along intentions, conscious and unconscious, motives, illusions and delusions, guilt and conscience or superego. In that light it dawned on me that most of the stories I’ve been writing of late…

  • Thinking

    I’ve put Freud away for a while — Totem and Taboo, Civilization and Its Discontents, and Moses and Monotheism , his trilogy swan song at the end of his life, but not for too long. In their place I am rounding up the cattle in my new work, trying to incorporate major…