To Be the Poet by Kingston, Maxine Hong
To Be the Poet by Kingston, Maxine Hong

To Be the Poet

"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't...
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Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
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To Be the Poet by Kingston, Maxine Hong

To Be the Poet

$108.35
To Be the Poet by Kingston, Maxine Hong

To Be the Poet

$108.35
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry. Taking readers along with her, this celebrated writer gathers advice from her gifted contemporaries and from sages, critics, and writers whom she takes as ancestors. She consults her past, her conscience, her time--and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet.

A manual on inviting poetry, on conjuring the elusive muse, To Be the Poet is also a harvest of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to bursts of eloquence, wonder, and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet.



Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher: Harvard
Published: 09/16/2002
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.74w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780674007918


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2002 pg. 82
Library Journal 10/01/2002 pg. 94

About the Author
Kingston, Maxine Hong: - Maxine Hong Kingston is Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. For her memoirs and fiction, including The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and Hawaii One Summer, Kingston has earned numerous awards, among them the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Pen West Award for Fiction, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the rare title, "Living Treasure of Hawai'i."
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