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My trade is mystery : seven meditations from a life in writing / Carl Phillips.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]Description: 100 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300257878
  • 0300257872
  • 9780300274141
  • 0300274149
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Preface -- Ambition -- Stamina -- Silence -- Politics -- Practice -- Audience -- Community.
Summary: "In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an "apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered." Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community. In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, this is an invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey. Phillips's book serves as a partner in speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery."--Publisher description.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 814.54 P558 Available 33111011186273
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture



"Illuminating, deeply endearing essays."--Ron Charles, Washington Post



"A lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers."--Diego Báez, Booklist



In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an "apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered." Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community.



In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird , Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet , and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations , this is an invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey. Phillips's book serves as a partner in speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an "apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered." Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community. In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, this is an invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey. Phillips's book serves as a partner in speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery."--Publisher description.

Preface -- Ambition -- Stamina -- Silence -- Politics -- Practice -- Audience -- Community.

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