02455nam 2200649Ia 450 991097309600332120200520144314.09780674039636067403963710.4159/9780674039636(CKB)1000000000805530(SSID)ssj0000259721(PQKBManifestationID)11244622(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259721(PQKBWorkID)10186947(PQKB)10680716(MiAaPQ)EBC3300756(Au-PeEL)EBL3300756(CaPaEBR)ebr10331343(OCoLC)923116451(DE-B1597)574559(DE-B1597)9780674039636(OCoLC)1294424803(Perlego)1147556(EXLCZ)99100000000080553020020305d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTo be the poet /Maxine Hong Kingston1st ed.Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press2002111 p. illThe William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilizationBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674007918 0674007913 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- I Choose the Poet’s Life -- 2 I Call on the Muses of Poetry, and Here’s What I Get -- 3 Spring HarvestI 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.William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization.Authors, American20th centuryBiographyChinese American womenBiographyPoetryAuthorshipAuthors, AmericanChinese American womenPoetryAuthorship.811/.54Kingston Maxine Hong683095MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973096003321To be the poet1232374UNINA