My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
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- Synopsis
- An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture &“A lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers.&”—Diego Báez, Booklist In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an &“apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered.&” Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community. In the tradition of Anne Lamott&’s Bird by Bird, Rainer Maria Rilke&’s Letters to a Young Poet, and Marcus Aurelius&’s Meditations, this is an invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey. Phillips&’s book serves as a partner in speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 112 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300268959
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780300257878
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/01/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Carl Phillips.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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