Views from the loft [[electronic resource] ] : a portable writer's workshop / / edited by Daniel Slager

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785146703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, MN, : Milkweed Editions, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-78489-7; 9786612784897; 1-57131-813-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SlagerDaniel
• Disciplina: 808/.02
• Soggetti: Authorship; Writing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: A Who's who of writers on writing.
• Nota di contenuto: Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; Teaching; Comes a Pony; Deborah Keenan; Michael Collier; Turning "Real Life" into Fiction; Why We Should Writeabout Things That Disappear; Tess Gallagher; Balancing Subtletyand Sledgehammers; Cuddling up with the Self-Censor; Negotiating the Boundariesbetween Catharsis and Literature; Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Woods; Tesoros; Guarding Voice; Writing; In Favor of Uncertainty; Working from Experience; Twenty-fivein an InfiniteSeries of Numbers; A Mentor's Wordsand Words on Her Words; The Poem Behind the Poem; Claiming Breath; Letting the Poem or Picture Book OutGot Them Poetry Blues?; A Few Cranky Paragraphson Form and Content; Toward a Metaphor of Translation; Some Notes on Negative Capability; Naming Names; A Recipe for Illusion; Nicole Helget; Critique; The Sad Epiphany Poem; A Tall White Pine; On Poetry; Ted Kooser; The Memoir as Literature; Power and Powerlessness; Children's Literature; Writing for the World; Is There Life after Elegy?; Confessions of a First Novelist; Lorna Landvik; What's Fiction Got to Do with It?; Leslie Adrienne Miller; The Writing of Deadfall in Berlin; Michael Cunningham; Memoir; Editing the ViewTen Questions I've Been Askedabout Picture Books; Why YA?; A View from a Slam; On Tour; The Book Group Phenomenon; Why I Write Fiction; Grace Paley; Dorianne Laux; Writing about the Mysteries ; of Life; Another Poet Gone to Prose; The Making of Sense; Theories; Travel Writing and the Specter of Transience; Open Discovery in the Art of Creative Nonfiction; Voyeur in the House of Performance Art; Journal Writing; Up-NorthLiterary Life; Reading the Open Book; Afterword; The Loft; Contributors; Acknowledgments; The Loft Literary Center; Supporting Members; Milkweed Editions
• Sommario/riassunto: Teachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views from the Loft brings together the collected wisdom of that community ? its authors, students, and editors ? giving anyone the tools and inspiration necessary to thrive in the writing life. A who's who of writers on writing ranging from the National Book Award?winning poet Mark Doty to Newbery medal?winning children's author Kate DiCamillo, and