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Facing the lion : writers on life and craft
- Title
- Facing the lion : writers on life and craft / edited by Kurt Brown.
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Brown, Kurt.
- Description
- 181 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Facing the Lion, the third volume in the Writers on Life and Craft Series, presents some of the most provocative and inspiring talks delivered to select audiences at writers' conferences in the U. S. and abroad. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read.
- Series Statement
- Writers on life and craft
- Uniform Title
- Writers on life and craft.
- Subject
- Contents
- Preface / Kurt Brown -- Else and Other: A Nonwriter Addresses the Nonwriters at a Writer's Conference / Paul Allen -- Facing the Lion: The Way of Shadow and Light in Some Twentieth-Century Poems / Jane Hirshfield -- Paint Brushes vs. Rollers: On Class Warfare, Honor, and the Cosmos / David Rivard -- Zapata's Disciple and Perfect Brie / Martin Espada -- Seeing in the Dark / Sharon Bryan -- A Moment's Thought / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Secrets of the Talking Leaf / Robert Michael Pyle -- Between Two Silences / Bruce Rice -- The Loneliness of the Writer / X. J. Kennedy -- Straw, Feathers & Dust / Marvin Bell -- A Word in Favor of Rootlessness / John Daniel -- Fiction in the Age of Caring / Francine Prose -- Raising the Dead / Sean Virgo -- On the Balance Between Art and Life: An Internal Dialogue / Susan Ludvigson.
- ISBN
- 080706209X
- LCCN
- 95047633
- OCLC
- ocm33440209
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries