| The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination Contributor(s): Phillips, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555976816 ISBN-13: 9781555976811 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Composition - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Poetry |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| LCCN: 2013958014 |
| Series: Art Of... |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.04" W x 7.11" (0.36 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing In seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry. What does it mean to give shapelessness a form? How can a poem explore both the natural world and the inner world? Phillips demonstrates the restless qualities of the imagination by reading and examining poems by Ashbery, Bogan, Frost, Niedecker, Shakespeare, and others, and by considering other art forms, such as photography and the blues. The Art of Daring is a lyrical, persuasive argument for the many ways that writing and living are acts of risk. I think it's largely the conundrum of being human that makes us keep making, Phillips writes. I think it has something to do with revision--how, not only is the world in constant revision, but each of us is, as well. |
Contributor Bio(s): Phillips, Carl: - Carl Phillips is the author of several books of poetry, including Silverchest, a finalist for the International Griffin Prize, and Double Shadow, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is also the author of The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. |