The muses among us : eloquent listening and other pleasures of the writer's craft / Kim Stafford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stafford, Kim Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

Creative writing.

Report writing.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

xi, 138 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003]

Summary:

The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestos, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls "what we almost know." On the boundary's far side is our story, our poem, our song. On this side are the resonant hunches, griefs, secrets, and confusions from which our writing will emerge. Guiding us from such glimmerings through to a finished piece are a wealth of experiments, assignments, and tricks of the trade that Stafford has perfected over thirty years of classes, workshops, and other gatherings of writers.

Contents:

Writing Daily, Writing in Tune 1

Scribe to the Prophet 3

Library of the Mind 9

The Writer as Professional Eavesdropper 14

Live Free or Die 27

Quilting Your Solitudes: A Letter to My Class 30

Looking for Mr. Nu 52

Happy Problems 60

Personal Memory and Fictional Character 69

Reading the Cutbank Grief 76

Open Discovery in the Art of Creative Nonfiction 80

The Random Autobiography 84

Sentence as River and as Drum 91

Writing in the Open 97

Pepper 101

Why Write? 104

Rosie's Book of Sayings 107

Selfish Pleasures in a Life of Art: A Speech to the Graduating Class 112

Fame 117

Afterword: Learning from Strangers 122

There Was a Time 135.

ISBN:

0820323241

0820324965

OCLC:

50695321