To Be the Poet (William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
Maxine Hong Kingston vows that her long service as a prose workhorse is over; she wants to be a poet/skylark. These essays, based on Kingston's 2000 William E. Massey Lectures at Harvard, articulate a writer's manual on inviting poetry. Melodious and supple, To Be the Poet practices what it...
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Maxine Hong Kingston vows that her long service as a prose workhorse is over; she wants to be a poet/skylark. These essays, based on Kingston's 2000 William E. Massey Lectures at Harvard, articulate a writer's manual on inviting poetry. Melodious and supple, To Be the Poet practices what it preaches.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780674007918 (0674007913)
Publish date: September 16th 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Interesting book. On one level it's very self-indulgent, Kingston's diary of her decision to move away from prose and enter into the world of poetry. But I loved that such an accomplished and widely-admired writer as she would be willing to make these fumbling steps in public, baring this awkward pr...
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