Memoirs are, in my opinion, suspect. Post-modernism has labeled the majority of narrators as unreliable.   Anyone viewing the events of their life through the lens of memory is seeing history distorted.   We lack the ability to be objective about ourselves, at least not in any real way.  I am therefore mistrustful of  memoirs  and find them difficult reading – a constant sifting through of opinions, … Continue reading By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives by Judith Tannenbaum & Spoon Jackson