Edité par Brand: Story Press, 1999
ISBN 10 : 1884910408 ISBN 13 : 9781884910401
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Visit the workshops of twenty-three of the best fiction-writing teachers in the country. Learn how to revise from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley. Find new ways to evoke time and place from Richard Russo, author of Nobody's Fool. National Book Award - winner Charles Johnson offers a passionate discussion of the writer's apprenticeship. Lan Samantha Chang, author of the acclaimed story collection Hunger, presents strategies for structuring stories. John Barth, one of the most influential writers and theorists of the past forty years, explores elements of storytelling. Creating Fiction is a partnership between Story Press and the Associated Writing Programs, an organization of nearly three hundred college and university writing programs. The contributors, members of the AWP, have taught thousands of students the art and craft of telling stories. Now their experience and wisdom can be found in one comprehensive book.
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1586540009 ISBN 13 : 9781586540005
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. 0. Product Description Well-known in the Pacific Northwest for his diverse writing talents, Skloot has crafted another book that will be as highly praised as his others. The beautifully crafted poems in this collection probe the depths of extended illness, of love, of perseverance in the face of disaster, of the healing power of music and of art. The Evening Light illuminates the importance of the things that give us strength.Floyd Skloot, recipient of the 1996 William Stafford Award, is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His memoir, The Night Side: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Illness Experience, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. He lives in Amity, Oregon. From Library Journal It's extraordinary to pick up a book of poetry and become so engrossed in it that you can't put it down. The content, texture, and drama of Skloot's poems swiftly move the reader into a rich, suspenseful world. Skloot has suffered for over a decade from what is probably Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. Many of the poems in this slim volume deal with the devastating effects of this conditionDbut there is no trace of self-pity, no dwelling in the illness. Indeed, he is absorbed by the sensual, extravagant beauty of rural northwestern Oregon, where he lives: "We saw swash drench salt-fretted sandstone/ till the cliff seemed to shudder." Skloot describes the autumn foliage on a tree: "The slight/ sourwood leaves turn such brilliant/ scarlet it seems summer sun/ still smolders in the tree's heart." The first section of the book, devoted to wittily entertaining poems about artistic figures, is an absolute delight as well. Highly recommended.DJudy Clarence, California State Univ. Lib., Hayward Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Skloot is an ordinary poet in the sense that he centers his poems on ordinary life. Illnesses, seasons, housekeeping, love, the aging of parents and one's own body, cooking--all are held up to the examining light of the poet's eye. Skloot's spirit is generous, more celebratory than critical. Although often autobiographical, his work is oddly not "confessional." As he reports his life experiences, they open up rather than close down to the reader. A fine sequence of imagined mundane anecdotes from the lives of other artists opens this book, which includes another, lush series on midlife love later on. Skloot's voice throughout is strong, clean, and clear. Patricia MonaghanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Review Argenteuil, 1874 Autumn Equinox Bedridden; Autumn Bedridden; Spring Bedridden; Summer Bedridden; Winter Bittersweet Nightshade Brain Lesions; I. Brain Lesions; Ii. Brain Lesions; Iii. Brain Lesions; Iv. The Breakers Casserole A Change Of Weather Channel Critical Care Day Of The Rainbow Daybreak Donizetti In A Coma, Bergamo, 1848 End Stage Evening Song Flight Frogs Returning Moon The Gem Glinka Dancing Her Game Hop Fields In Winter Hurricane Watch Kokoschka In Love, 1914 Leakage Manet In Late Summer Max At Table Memory Harbor Near The End Oncogene Protection Island River Walk Seduction Self-portrait With 1911 Ny Yankees Cap Seurat On The Vernal Equinox, 1891 Slievemore Sourwood Nocturne Still Life With Eggs & Whisk Swans In Galway Bay Terminal Toomey's Diner Van Gogh And Toulouse-lautrec On The Way To Pere Tanguy's Visiting Hour The Winter Branch -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder.
Edité par Brand: Story Press, 1998
ISBN 10 : 188491036X ISBN 13 : 9781884910364
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. This is one of the best books on writing that I have collected. Roorbach includes information along with exercises the reader can perform to learn and later improve his/her own stories. I bought several copies of his book to give to member of a writing group that I belonged to. Good job, Bill. A-12.
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Edité par Brand: Story Press, 1995
ISBN 10 : 1884910033 ISBN 13 : 9781884910036
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. 2nd printing. Feb.1995 Story Press hardcover, 2nd printing. Josip Novakovich (Heritage of Smoke). The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop, Second Edition, is designed to help you foster a strong sense of independence-of being and thinking on your own, of becoming self-evaluative without being self-critical-in order to accomplish what others seek in classroom groups. - Amazon.
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Edité par Brand: Story Press, 1996
ISBN 10 : 1884910068 ISBN 13 : 9781884910067
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Offers advice for creating characters, advancing the plot, building suspense, and incorporating stage directions for theatrical productions.
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Edité par Brand: Story Press, 1995
ISBN 10 : 1884910041 ISBN 13 : 9781884910043
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. The language of poetry is rich and complex?from abstract language to voice, with all the enjambment, Nashers and sprung rhythm in between. The Poetry Dictionary illuminates and unravels it all with clear, working definitions.In addition, you'll find vivid and thorough descriptions, along with examples from classic and contemporary poetry, Greek to avant-garde, to illustrate the terms. In many cases, several different poems are used to show the evolution of the form, making The Poetry Dictionary a unique anthology of the art. It's a guide to the poetry of today and yesterday, with intriguing hints as to what tomorrow holds.Author/poet John Drury focuses on those terms that are useful to students and teachers. These are words you need to effectively discuss the craft?concepts that will broaden and stimulate your own creative processes. Drury's from-experience viewpoint and spirited voice keep The Poetry Dictionary relevant, immediate and not only easy to read, but hard not to.
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1995
ISBN 10 : 1885266049 ISBN 13 : 9781885266040
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Bruce Bawer is the most clear-eyed and fierce literary critic writing today . and he's troubled about the state of poetry. These 23 essays -- many written for The New Criterion -- take no half-measure and fewer prisoners. The Helen Vendlers and Allen Ginsbergs are radically examined, leaving the world a better place.
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Edité par Brand: Story Press Books, 1994
ISBN 10 : 188491053X ISBN 13 : 9781884910531
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. Oakley Hall cites the works and methods of great novelists to show readers what works in the novel and why. This book features advice on taking a novel through each of its stages, guiding writers through the process of writing a novel.
Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1995
ISBN 10 : 1885266014 ISBN 13 : 9781885266019
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. Product Description A collection of poetry explores timelessness, idleness, and the struggle between leisure and work From Publishers Weekly Gery's first collection is as richly contradictory as "the spirit, the American ghost" that his poems give shape to. The ideals of "those cowboys of whom we are/ so proud" seem both celebrated and duly exorcised. The question "What Are Chores?" becomes a meditation on timelessness and idleness; throughout, images from middle-American life may appear as subversive hallucinations. Adding depth to the frame-by-frame panorama is Gery's frequent, subtle use of traditional meters and forms (in particular, iambic pentameter and rhymed quatrains), rendering an edgy, hard-won elegance to the lines. The struggle between leisure and work is examined through layers of old-fashioned lyricism, political metaphor and real-life contexts; this tension can, as is suggested in "Pandora's Gift," be cause for wry rejoicing: ".And what of us, if from the first/ our evil had been ordinary,/ our songs not beautiful, our hearts not cursed?"Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Afterthought American Ghost Anti-hemingway The Arbitrary Edge A Bad Performance But My Own The Barracuda Being And Tire Dark Horse Death In Various Parts: 1 Death In Various Parts: 2 Death In Various Parts: 3 Deep South A Duty To Dejection The Enemies Of Leisure The Fat Lady At The Liquor Store First Music For Sally Ann, Wherever She Is, In Alabama For The People Of Lesbos The Game Of The Week A Great Woolly Mammoth The Homeless And Me The Impropriety Of Trees Invasion Of The Small Muses The Last Wallenda Living With Max Love's Myriad Alterations Making Your Way: An Epithalamion On All These Ideas In America On Moving, On Moving On On The Other Hand Pandora's Gift Photograph From The Gulf Coast The Shape Of Sadness A Sleep And A Forgetting Speech For A Possible Ending To A Friend's Wife To The Pedestrian Crossing Elysian Fields At Humanity In New Orleans A True Lie Waffle Days 'what Are Chores?' What It's Like To Travel Long Distance Alone On The Train What We Imagine --Table of Poems from.
Edité par Brand: Story Press, 1994
ISBN 10 : 1884910009 ISBN 13 : 9781884910005
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : New. First Edition. With lively style, good humor and insight, Robin Hemley helps you turn all that you experience into fresh and powerful fiction.By learning to "reimagine," you'll focus on translating real-world people and events into characters and scenes that happen on paper for the first time. You'll think "what if" instead of "what is" in order to take control of your material and cut loose the inhibitions of real life.In these pages, you'll learn how to hone your observation skills and fill your journal with rich and vivid details. (Because, as Hemley writes, "Life is in the details, and so is good fiction.") You'll see how to decide which ideas to bring to fiction and which ones to let go. And you'll learn how to: find the right form - novel, short story, vignette, memoir - for the story you want to tell; use "triggers" to start your reader's imagination rolling; keep your fiction emotionally honest by making the right choices between "the way it happened" and what the story dictates (ask "Is it believable?", not "Did it happen?"); create composites of real people and places that fit the unique needs of your story and empower your imagination; focus your fiction. Make sure everything, every character counts - and eliminate "people who sit at the end of the bar without a role to play"; fictionalize - ethically and legally - other people's stories. Learn your rights as a writer versus their rights to privacy. (Can you use actual names? When do you need to get permission?)To illustrate how writers feed their fiction with reality, Hemley uses examples from his own work and from fiction masters of yesterday and today. At the end of each chapter, challenging exercises help you apply the basic theories and push them even further.An adventurous read, Turning Life Into Fiction will help you create fiction that's just as strange and wonderful and "real" as the life that inspires it.
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1996
ISBN 10 : 1885266235 ISBN 13 : 9781885266231
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. In poems of historical and personal memory, a father and daughter share recollections of the Civil War.
Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1998
ISBN 10 : 1885266340 ISBN 13 : 9781885266347
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. Revised, Expanded ed. Poetry After Modernism, Story Line's most successful anthology of criticism, was recognized and widely praised for raising the level of discourse on poetry. This expanded edition retains seven original essays and adds seven new pieces. As editor Robert McDowell points out, "Poets who can write good critical prose from distinctive points of view are the most reliable guides to the news we need to hear most".
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1996
ISBN 10 : 1885266359 ISBN 13 : 9781885266354
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Good. 2. OUR COPY HAS SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR, LIGHT CURLING AND DINGS ON COVERS, SPINE EDGES AND ON PAGES. AUTHOR INSCRIPTION ON FIRST PAGE AND SIGNATURE ON TITLE PAGE.
Edité par Brand: Second Story Press, 2008
ISBN 10 : 1897187394 ISBN 13 : 9781897187395
Vendeur : Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Edité par Brand: Second Story Press, 1994
ISBN 10 : 0929005538 ISBN 13 : 9780929005539
Vendeur : Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1996
ISBN 10 : 1885266316 ISBN 13 : 9781885266316
Vendeur : Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Edité par Brand: UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project, 2009
ISBN 10 : 0970619073 ISBN 13 : 9780970619075
Vendeur : LibraryMercantile, Humble, TX, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good.
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Edité par Brand: Story Press, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1884910513 ISBN 13 : 9781884910517
Vendeur : Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Edité par Brand: Second Story Press, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0929005414 ISBN 13 : 9780929005416
Vendeur : Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1990
ISBN 10 : 0934257418 ISBN 13 : 9780934257411
Vendeur : Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1995
ISBN 10 : 1885266006 ISBN 13 : 9781885266002
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Etat : new.
Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1997
ISBN 10 : 1885266553 ISBN 13 : 9781885266552
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Etat : new.
Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1999
ISBN 10 : 1885266685 ISBN 13 : 9781885266682
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 2003
ISBN 10 : 158654022X ISBN 13 : 9781586540227
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1994
ISBN 10 : 0934257582 ISBN 13 : 9780934257589
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 2000
ISBN 10 : 1885266979 ISBN 13 : 9781885266972
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Brand: Story Press, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1884910491 ISBN 13 : 9781884910494
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0934257426 ISBN 13 : 9780934257428
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1995
ISBN 10 : 1885266022 ISBN 13 : 9781885266026
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Brand: Story Line Press, 1989
ISBN 10 : 0934257310 ISBN 13 : 9780934257312
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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