ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author attempts to make a case and a place for research that would keep soul in mind. To write down the soul of the work is to write from that feeling place of mourning that knows about what is lost and left behind and still waits for our attention. In addition, in elegiac writing, when one is writing from the place of soul, even the living authors one cites and with whom one dialogues have entered into the imaginal landscape of the soul. A metaphoric sensibility is another quality for writing down the soul and again psychological writing draws near to the poet. A being of flesh and blood does, and if the ancestors who gather around one's writing table and who carry the unfinished business of the soul of the work want our blood, then this is what writing down the soul of the work costs, and this is what writer give.
