Walking light : essays & memoirs /
A few years ago poet Stephen Dunn discovered an inclination to be an essayist, "a person who believes there's value in being overheard clarifying things for himself". As he turned to prose writing and the collection grew, Dunn found himself blending thoughts about poetry with musings...
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New York :
Norton,
1993
New York : c1993 New York : [1993] |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Stepping Out
- Bringing the Strange Home
- The Good, the Not So Good
- Basketball and Poetry: The Two Richies
- Some Reflections on the Abstract and the Wise
- Gambling: Remembrances and Assertions
- Complaint, Complicity, Outrage, and Composition
- A History of My Silence
- Artifice and Sincerity
- The Truth: A Memoir
- Alert Lovers, Hidden Sides, and Ice Travelers: Notes on Poetic Form and Energy
- The Poet as Teacher: Vices and Virtues
- Notes
- Touching the Leper's Hand: Possibilities of Affirmation