LEADER 03965nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910459533603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-78489-7 010 $a9786612784897 010 $a1-57131-813-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000046295 035 $a(EBL)584844 035 $a(OCoLC)669128269 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488228 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308276 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488228 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10446909 035 $a(PQKB)11290336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC584844 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL584844 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10413053 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL278489 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000046295 100 $a20100304d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aViews from the loft$b[electronic resource] $ea portable writer's workshop /$fedited by Daniel Slager 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis, MN $cMilkweed Editions$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aA Who's who of writers on writing. 311 $a1-57131-323-0 327 $aDedication; 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 327 $aLetting 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 327 $aEditing 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 330 $aTeachers, 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 606 $aAuthorship 606 $aWriting$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthorship. 615 0$aWriting 676 $a808/.02 701 $aSlager$b Daniel$01041448 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459533603321 996 $aViews from the loft$92464955 997 $aUNINA