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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973096003321

Autore

Kingston Maxine Hong

Titolo

To be the poet / / Maxine Hong Kingston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

9780674039636

0674039637

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

111 p. : ill

Collana

The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Chinese American women

Poetry - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- I Choose the Poet’s Life -- 2 I Call on the Muses of Poetry, and Here’s What I Get -- 3 Spring Harvest

Sommario/riassunto

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.