CRWT 40.21 The Gleaners

 

Gleaning, as depicted here—a biblical allusion—is the practice of collecting leftover grain from a harvested field. The gleaners lived on the remains. I'm fascinated by that idea in relation to creative nonfiction, a form of documentary art—art made of the real stuff of the world, because it’s what’s there. What can we do with what’s there? What can we glean? There’s another sense of the term gleaning that’s developed over the years, of assembling a story bit by bit from the facts that you can find. A process akin to another documentary art, collage. It’s in this sense that the idea of gleaning will guide us in our study and practice of creative nonfiction, with a nod toward its roots in necessity and necessity’s cousins, bitterness and hope. 

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