J.P.P. Pofus

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Joseph P. P. Pofus taught literature and writing to young people for decades. He loves the Yahwist, Homer, Vergil, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Dante, the Gawain poet, Julian of Norwich, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Joyce, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Bugs Bunny. He lives with his wife, who is not dead, the two of them surrounded by grandchildren. He prays every night that God will forgive him for everything, including the worst parts of Treee.

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Treee: Part One

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Stories-within-stories

I’ve always loved stories-within-stories; I imagine most readers do, since they’re a treat inside a treat. The play within the play of Hamlet is great fun, and I am still a fan of John Barth’s book, Lost in the Funhouse, in which he exercises the story-within-a-story technique to fatigue. “Partial Magic in the Quixote,” Jorge Luis Borges’ excellent short essay about stories-within-stories, led me Read more of this blog post »
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