To Be the Poet

To Be the Poet
ISBN-10
0674039637
ISBN-13
9780674039636
Category
Poetry
Pages
124
Language
English
Published
2009-06-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Maxine Hong Kingston

Description

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.

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