Description: Further DetailsTitle: Passing the WordCondition: NewSubtitle: Writers on Their MentorsEAN: 9781889330594ISBN: 9781889330594Publisher: Sarabande Books, IncorporatedFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/16/2001Description: "Discipline, humility, kindness. These qualities cohere in the best mentors, bundled into an overarching approach to the art of writing. It is not, I think, coincidence that the writers in this collection remember these qualities best when speaking of their mentors as people, as fellow pilgrims who helped them on the way. In some sense, whether consciously or not, we seek out mentors who learn how to live—as an artist, and as a human being."—from the Introduction by Jeffrey SkinnerLee Martin is the author of a collection of stories, The Least You Need to Know (Sarabande, 1996), a memoir From Our House (Dutton 2000), and a novel Just Enough Haughty, also forthcoming from Dutton. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of North Texas where he also edits the American Literary Review.Jeffrey Skinner is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Louisville. His published collections of poetry include The Company of Heaven (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), Late Stars (Wesleyan University Press, 1985), and A Guide to Forgetting (Graywolf Press, 1988), which was a National Poetry Series selection.Contributors include: Michael Collier on William Meredith Jay McInerney on Raymond Carver Tess Gallagher on Theodore Roethke and Stanley Kunitz Reginald Shepherd on Alvin Feinman Dana Gioia on Elizabeth Bishop Maura Stanton on Vert Rutsala and John Berryman Elizabeth Graver on Annie Dillard, Angela Carter, Stanley Elkin, and others Sylvia Watanabe on Dorothy Vella David Huddle on Peter Taylor David Wojahn on James L. White Erin McGraw on John L’HeureuxCONTENTSPREFACE by Lee Martin, viiINTRODUCTION: The Scrupulous Philanthropy of Expertise by Jeffrey Skinner, xiMICHAEL COLLIER An Exact Ratio, 3 The Farrier, 12JAY MCINERNEY Raymond Carver: A Still, Small Voice, 15 Getting in Touch with Your Child, 24TESS GALLAGHER Two Mentors: From Orphanhood to Spirit-Companion, 39 Behave, 45DAVID HUDDLE What about Those Good People?, 51 Backstory, 57REGINALD SHEPHERD TLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 411gContributor: Jeffrey Skinner (Edited by), Lee Martin (Edited by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Writer's StudioAuthor: Jeffrey SkinnerRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Passing the Word
Title: Passing the Word
Subtitle: Writers on Their Mentors
EAN: 9781889330594
ISBN: 9781889330594
Release Date: 08/16/2001
Release Year: 2001
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Lee Martin (Edited by)
Series: Writer's Studio
Book Title: Passing the Word : Writers on Their Mentors
Number of Pages: 231 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2001
Topic: Authorship, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General, Literary, Interpersonal Relations, Composition & Creative Writing
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Item Weight: 14.5 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lee Martin
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: The Writer's Studio Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
