Isbn: 9781555971816 - the true subject: writers on life and craft (17 resultados)

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Pb. Condición: G+. 151 pages, some underlining and notes in ink in text, otherwise the book is in very good condition.

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Paperback. Condición: Like New. First Edition. ***Please Read*** Signed Copy by Jane Smiley one of the Conference Lectures - First Printing - No marks on text - My shelf location - bn1-b-23*. Signed by Author.

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 151 pages. Selected lectures from writers' conferences on the art and craft of finding a nd using artistic inspiration feature the works of Jane Smiley, Gary Snyder, Mir oslav Holub, and Mary Clearman Blew Review These fourteen thought-provoked essay s originated as lectures delivered at a variety of writers conferences. In Can M others Think?, Jane Smiley addresses the failure of literature to include mother s and argues that such authors as Toni Morrison, Sue Miller, Alice Walker, and L ouise Erdrich are creating a new literature, the literature of real, live mother hood. Gary Snyder, at the Art of the Wild Conference in Squaw Valley, claims tha t like ecosystems, consciousness, mind, imagination, and language are fundamenta lly wild, while over at the Paris Writers Conference, Julian Gloag laments the t entativeness of students who haven't been trained to think. Michael Dennis Brown e proposes that it is a sense of constantly failing to reach perfection that pro pels us to continue writing; Donald Justice, similarly, discusses the elusivenes s of the ideal. Thanks to editor Kurt Brown, we can consume the lean, nourishing meat of the conferences without having first to pick our way through the fat. - -Jane Steinberg From Publishers Weekly This anthology of 14 essays, first delive red as lectures at several writers' conferences around the country, contains som e wisdom and inspiration but lacks coherence. Jane Smiley reflects thoughtfully on the extreme paucity of mothers, and of the tradition of a maternal vision in our literary culture, and suggests that a new literature of real, live motherhoo d is being forged. Christopher Merrill, reporting on a writers' conference in Sl ovenia, finds the famous panelists ignoring the nearby Bosnian war and instead h.…

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Softcover. Condición: Fine. Stapled wraps signed by Smiley to the front cover. A 15-page excerpt from the book "The True Subject." Fine condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 15 pages; Signed by Author.