A Literary Biography

After reading Gary Lutz's essay, it seems to me that he just narrated his life in a literary context. Apparently his development in words depended solely on him and on the things that surrounded him. His development is shown through stages chronologically from parragraph to parragraph. At first he shows that his family couldn't have been a trigger for him to start reading in his childhood because they didn't have that culture of reading really adopted. Ironically, the only magazine that came to the house was one of photography. Since people normally need something or someone to catapult their literary life and Lutz clearly lacked one, it is shown in the way he narrates his story and, obiviously his story in essence.

He proceeds to describe a sentence and the structure of it. Gary Lutz shows his fixation in details from this point on. He later performs a close reading about a four word sentence which I found great because you get to see the writer's skills in more aspects of the literary field than just writing. His close reading is so detailed that he even analyzes Christine Shutt's piece to the scale of syllables.