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Chargement... Writers on Writingpar Robert Pack (Directeur de publication), Jay Parini (Directeur de publication)
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A collection of essays in which authors reflect upon various aspects of writing, including criticism, themes, writing succinctly, the use of metaphor, word choice, the relation between productivity and quality, and the aesthetics of prose. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This oldish (1991) collection of essays from writers and poets is very hit-and-miss. For me, a writer less interested in poetry, I found myself getting bogged down in the poetry analysis/methodology pieces. (Though one of the essays directs specifically that writers of prose SHOULD be reading poetry for the purposes of considering word economy, and so I just might have to reconsider.) And even several of the prose-related essays got bogged down in literary ephemera that seemed like it had less to do with writing. But a few of the essays hit home -- especially a fun one on prolificacy, which was good for a chuckle and also made me feel like a slug for not pouring out novels at the rate of Balzac and Dickens. I would only recommend this collection to the hardest-core writer, one who has already slogged through the more common how-to books (Carol Bly, John Gardner, Janet Burroway, Anne Lamott, etc.). ( )