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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-323-2
Pages: 336
Publish Date: Dec, 2010
Genre: Nonfiction
Views from the Loft
A Portable Writer's Workshop
BY Daniel Slager
A who’s who of writers on writing spanning from the National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty to Newberry Medal-winning children’s author Kate DiCamillo, and touching on issues as delicate as the representation of family in memoir and as hilarious as a “sad-epiphany poem” Mad Lib for frustrated poets, this book is an essential collection of crucial tips and challenging questions for everyone who puts pen to page in pursuit of art.
Inspiration from the best teachers and students of America’s preeminent literary center, The Loft.
For thirty-five years the Loft Literary Center has provided a community for all writers—from the most experienced workshop junky to the first-time scribbler. Views from the Loft brings the collected wisdom of that community—its authors, students, and editors—together to give anyone the tools and inspiration they need to thrive in the writing life.
With more than 60 essays, including:
GRACE PALEY on the writer’s responsibility in the world
RICK BASS on writing and keeping your schedule open for the muse
MARILYN CHIN on grandfathers, cowlicks, and shoe glue in first drafts of poems
LEWIS HYDE on embracing the mythology of wholeness in nonfiction
TED KOOSER on fostering a poetic life
SUSAN STRAIGHT on writing through clogged toilets, broken windows, and the other charms of single-motherhood
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"Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop is packed with inspirational, useful, and thought-provoking essays on the craft of writing by some of the best writers around."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune"Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop is a local collection of essays that gets inside the minds and hearts of authors and poets alike. The all-star cast of writers, including Kate DiCamillo and Mark Doty, shares the trials and tribulations that paved the way to successful careers. Some passages are clinical, while others are inspirational, but each will motivate you to pick up a pen and write."
—MSP Magazine"35 years of literary wisdom."
—Marianne Combs of Minnesota Public Radio"The volume's organization—separated into the categories of teaching, writing, critique, publication and writing for life— is meant to emulate the Loft's workshop model, to provide burgeoning writers with the 'tools and inspiration they need to thrive.' Thrive? That's a tall order. But delight in rummaging around in the advice, the grumbling, the erudition offered in these pages? For sure. Few genres go uncovered."
—The Oregonian
