Lit from Within : Contemporary Masters on the Art and Craft of Writing.
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- 9780821443705
- 808/.02
- PN145 .L58 2011
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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