To be the poet / Maxine Hong Kingston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingston, Maxine Hong.

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.

Physical Description:

111 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

I have almost finished my longbook, Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin.I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

I Choose the Poet’s Life

2 I Call on the Muses of Poetry, and Here’s What I Get

3 Spring Harvest

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780674039636

0674039637

OCLC:

923116451