Source of Lit - Unsaid - Evelyn Hampton

Evelyn Hampton - Stories of the Things That Had No Power of Their Own

With Evelyn's story, I enjoyed the combination of things she was throwing at the reader - the Plastic House, the Fox and the Hound story, the gender confusion, and it all seemed to escalate as the story progressed.

What was it about the writing of Evelyn Hampton, of "Stories of Things That Had No Power of Their Own" in particular that deemed it an Unsaid story?

David:

Hampton breaks me in places I believed I no longer contained. She is smart and funny, but the underlying foundation of her pages is what hits me where I bleed. There are no few beautiful lingual moments in Hampton's work that transcend any notion of the imagination. These are utterances that portray a realness of truth and the truth of a certain realness. In other words, Hampton is not only believable in the presentation of her feelings,she emotes and makes the reader believe them as well. We feel what she feels. Like Galvez--or unlike Galvez--Hampton is Hampton, not Unsaid. But perhaps this is what Unsaid is all about--the saying of what we have all felt but never said.