![]() ![]() ![]() "In most people," Updike remarks, "there is a settled place they speak from," but in his own case, identity "remains unsettled, unfinished, provisional" (80). Ten years further on, the mystery continues in a book of memoirs entitled Self-Consciousness (1989). Perhaps that's the abiding mystery in my metaphysical universe" ("Conversation " 145). It's about the mystery of being alive-of being you as opposed to being somebody else. ![]() ![]() Ruminating fondly about that volume some ten years later, Updike observes, "I remain pleased with Midpoint. Throughout his long and prodigious career, American writer John Updike has been fascinated by human identity in modern culture-a preoccupation that perhaps became crystallized for him upon completion of his third book of poetry entitled Midpoint (1969). Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon (3) ![]()
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