The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1555976816
ISBN 13
9781555976811
Category
Poetry
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Pages
136
Subject
Poetry, Reference
Description
In six 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 at once explore 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.” -- from publisher's website.
Number of Copies
1
