To be the poet / Maxine Hong Kingston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingston, Maxine Hong.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization

The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kingston, Maxine Hong.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Chinese American women--Biography.

Chinese American women.

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

98 pages ; 19 cm.

Edition:

Uncorrected page proofs.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Notes:

Publication information on initial page.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has business card for assistant sales director laid in at front.

OCLC:

927106267