Lit from Within : Contemporary Masters on the Art and Craft of Writing.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Wrong Answer -- Confessions of a Navel Gazer -- Gesture -- The Myth of Craft Thoughts on the Writing of Poetry -- Only Collect Something about the Short Story Collection -- Stillness -- Thirteen Things I Hate about Poetry -- Some Questions about Questions -- The Poem, Its Buried Subject, and the Revisionist Reader Behind "The Guardian Angel" -- Thirteen Things about the Contemporary Short Story That Really Hack Me Off -- Litany, Gamesmanship, and Representation Charting the Old to the New Poetry -- All That Is the Case Some Thoughts on Fact in Nonfiction and Documentary Poetry -- A Poem of Character -- Good Fortune Befell Me Notes on the Writer/Editor Relationship -- Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World -- Credits.
Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America's most celebrated contemporary authors. Witty, direct, and thought-provoking, these essays offer something to creative writers of all backgrounds and experience.