Waters, Frank - Quay Grigg (essay date Autumn 1977)
Quay Grigg (essay date Autumn 1977)
SOURCE: "Frank Waters and the Mountain Spirit," in The South Dakota Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, Autumn, 1977, pp. 45-9.
[Grigg is an American educator. In the following essay, he discusses the symbolism of mountains and valleys in Waters's writings.]
When both time and space take on a strangeness, we know that we have been taken to the "once upon a time and place" of dream, fairy tale, myth—and the world of Frank Waters. His work is modeled not upon our rational, separate perception of time and space, but upon those denizens of the unconcious who point both backward and forward in time, and who float like mountain peaks above the dimension of space.
Because Waters' work from the beginning has had an Einsteinian quality in treatment of the dimensions of space and time, we can look in works widely separated in time for mutual illumination; Waters' work does look both forward and backward, as...
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