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Catching the Light by Joy Harjo
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Why I Write Ser.
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Harjo writes as if the creative journey has been the destination all along."--Kirkus Reviews In this lyrical meditatio ...Show more
Devotion by Patti Smith
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audi ...Show more
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Why I Write Ser.
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? ...Show more
For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles
Category: Biography | Series: Why I Write Ser.
"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existentia ...Show more
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey
Category: Reference | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture ...Show more
Inadvertent: Why I Write by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Biography | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the ...Show more
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