![]() ![]() One becomes immersed in surging memories as if having been plunged into a deep ocean. I often describe writing memoir as being sucked into another world via the pen, which serves as a portal. What is the biggest challenge when writing CNF? Of course, her seeking to be rooted means that she is contending with rootlessness, and in the memoir essay we consider what happens when one’s roots are bound not to a place, but a person. The narrator believes she has a home again with her mother in whom she will find rest and be rooted. I had a piece already written and thought that “We Reach” would be fitting for Epoch’s theme since my narrative centres around a Trinidadian teenager seeking to immigrate to NYC to join a mother who left six years before the present moment of the piece. I’m also a poet and my CNF contains poetic elements.ĭid you have a piece already written when you learned about Epoch’s theme, or did you write a new piece? If so, how did you approach the theme of Roots in the creation of your work? Memoir thus functions as an access point and an archive. I think that the personal is societal, cultural, racial, geographical, psychological, sociological, environmental, lingual, pedagogical, historical, and art. Training a close lens on one’s life allows for the discovery of broader phenomena at work that, upon being unveiled and interrogated, can hopefully be corrected. I write memoir because I’m concerned with uncovering microcosmic and macrocosmic hard truths. ![]() Why do you write CNF, and do you explore other genres in your work? ![]() Camille Adams’s piece, ‘We Reach’, can be found in EPOCH Issue 03: Roots, available to purchase here. ![]()
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