A manual on conjuring the elusive muse, this volume is Kingston's manifesto, avowal, and declaration of a writer who turns to poetry exclusively. Kingston delivered the 2000 William Massey lectures at Harvard, on which this book is based. Illustrations.
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A manual on conjuring the elusive muse, this volume is Kingston's manifesto, avowal, and declaration of a writer who turns to poetry exclusively. Kingston delivered the 2000 William Massey lectures at Harvard, on which this book is based. Illustrations.
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Very Good. Signed Copy Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. Signed by author on front endpage. The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. (Literature, Poets, History)
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0674007913. Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. Flatsigned by Kingston on front endpaper.; 7.10 X 5.20 X 0.60 inches; 128 pages; Signed by Author.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0674007913. Simply signed by Maxine Hong Kingston on the title page.; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures In American Studies; 128 pages; Signed by Author.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Inscribed By Author. Book shows very light shelf wear to covers only, book has bumped lower front corner, slightly cocked spine, otherwise as-new. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Inscribed and signed on front endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket. 111 pages. Inscribed by author. "Taking readers along with her, this celebrated writer gathers advice from her gifted contemporaries and from sages, critics, and writers whom she takes as ancestors. She consults her past, her conscience, her time--and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet."
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Dust Jacket Included. Signed by Author(s) Harvard University Press, 2002. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. New in dust jacket, a pristine, unread copy. Very fine/Very fine in all respects. Comes with archival quality mylar dust jacket protector. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. 0.0.