My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative...
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Author: Carl Phillips
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My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Phillips, Carl

My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

$51.77

My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

$51.77
Author: Carl Phillips
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Carl Phillips
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.79w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780300257878


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/2022
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 19

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