Craft Class : The Writing Workshop in American Culture / Christopher Kempf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kempf, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Study and teaching--United States.

Creative writing.

Writers' workshops--United States.

Writers' workshops.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]

Summary:

With the rise of the workshop in American culture, Kempf shows, manual and mental labor have been welded together like steel plates. What fissures does that weld seal shut? And on whose behalf does the poet punch in?.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Play's a Thing: The 47 Workshop and the Crafting of Creative Writing

2 A Vast University of the Common People: Meridel Le Sueur and the 1930s Left

3 Significant Craft: Robert Duncan and the Black Mountain Craft Ideal

4 The Better Craftsmanship: Poetry Craft Books Then and Now

Coda. A Grindstone Does Its Job

Or, What about Iowa?

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421443577

1421443570

OCLC:

1299301344