false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172848172m/222435.jpg 222435 1 <p> "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." <i>To Be the Poet</i> 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. Taking readers along with her, this celebrated writer gathers advice from her gifted contemporaries and from sages, critics, and writers whom she takes as ancestors. She consults her past, her conscience, her time--and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet. </p><p> A manual on inviting poetry, on conjuring the elusive muse, <i>To Be the Poet</i> is also a harvest of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to bursts of eloquence, wonder, and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet. </p> 215419 16 9 2002 To Be the Poet (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization) total:17|5:0|4:0|3:1|2:0|1:0| 17 60 24 2 4 0 false false Tue Sep 16 11:10:31 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 06:51:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 12:50:10 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 12:55:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 04:17:21 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 04:17:26 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 16:00:09 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 16:00:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 23:19:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 23:19:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 08 11:00:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 11:00:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 27 23:28:26 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 23:28:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 26 03:44:56 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 03:44:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Apr 11 13:31:14 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:31:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 07 23:22:32 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 23:22:32 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Dec 06 09:55:38 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 09:55:38 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Oct 26 07:47:31 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 07:47:31 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Sep 25 14:02:38 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 14:02:38 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Aug 12 15:51:53 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 15:51:53 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Sat Aug 02 15:18:39 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 15:18:39 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Feb 19 06:48:32 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 06:48:32 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Feb 09 13:49:54 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 13:50:06 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 28 21:45:33 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 21:45:33 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jan 24 16:27:48 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 16:27:48 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Oct 22 22:11:55 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 22:11:55 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=222435