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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Cambridge. 2002. September 2002. Harvard University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0674007913. 111 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by the author. keywords: Poetry Essay Women America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER-To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry. 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. ' A manual on inviting poetry, on conjuring the elusive muse, To Be the Poet is also a harvest of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to bursts of eloquence, wonder, and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet. inventory #36727.
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New in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 128 p. Contains: Illustrations. William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies, 12. Audience: General/trade.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 128 p. William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies, 12. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
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Fine. No Jacket. The advance reading copy (marked "uncorrected page proofs") of her 2000 William E. Massey Lectures at Harvard. Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
