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Title:

The True subject : writers on life and craft / [by Jane Smiley ... and others] ; edited by Kurt Brown.

Publisher:

Graywolf Press,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

151 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Authorship.
Literature--Philosophy

Other Authors:

Brown, Kurt.
Smiley, Jane.

Notes:

"Best writers' conference lectures"--P. [1] of cover.

Contents:

Can Mothers think? / Jane Smiley -- Nature's writing / Gary Snyder -- On Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the New World order / Christopher Merrill -- Talking to the horse / Julian Gloag -- Failure / Michael Dennis Browne -- Doing good work together / William Kittredge -- The art of memoir / Mary Clearman Blew -- The true subject: the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz / Agha Shahid Ali -- The total writer / Bill Brashler -- The impact of science on "poet's soul" / Miroslav Holub -- A writer's sense of place / James D. Houston -- Auden's generalizations / Sidney Burris -- Oblivion: variations on a theme / Donald Justice -- Hearing Silence: western myth reconsidered / Marilynne Robinson.

ISBN:

9781555971816
1555971814

OCLC:

(OCoLC)27264761

LCCN:

92043508

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)