Research Catalog

Title

Writing the Australian crawl : views on the writer's vocation / William Stafford.

Author

Stafford, William, 1914-1993

Publication

• Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1978]
• ©1978

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

x, 161 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Writing the Australian Crawl presents a new attitude toward the teaching and practice of writing-a writer isn't simply a craftsman with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer brings those attributes into a process that is filled with exciting emergencies and opportunities. In the end, something emerge that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Series Statement

Poets on poetry

Uniform Title

Poets on poetry

Subject

• Authorship
• Authors and readers
• Poetry
• Authorship
• Poetry as Topic
• authorship
• poetry
• Authors and readers
• Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Poésie.

Contents

I. Background, Sententia. What it is like: introduction to Since feeling is first -- A statement on life and writing -- Writing and literature: some opinions. II. Let me explain: articles. A way of writing -- Writing the Australian crawl -- Capturing "People of the South Wind" -- The end of a golden string -- Writing: the discovery of daily experience -- The practice of composing in language -- Some arguments against good diction -- Making a poem/starting a car on ice -- Whose tradition? III. Indirections: interviews, conversations. Dreams to have: an interview with Cynthia Lofsness -- Finding what the world is trying to be: an interview with Sanford Pinsker -- I would also like to mention aluminum: an interview with William Heyen and Al Poulin. IV. Toward this book. Into the cold world: leaving the workshop.

ISBN

• 0472873008
• 9780472873005

LCCN

77005711

OCLC

• ocm02894109
• 2894109
• SCSB-2091597

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library