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Stewart, Susan 1952-

The poet's freedom a notebook on making Susan Stewart - xi, 303 p 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

On the method of this "notebook" -- A sand castle -- Beginning -- The freedom of the maker -- The creator in genesis -- Praising -- The thought of thankfulness -- The birth of a new song -- Freedom from mood -- A sympathetic nature -- Metaphor and music -- Freedom from imagination -- Composing anxiety -- The free work of symbols -- Forming -- Ovid's contests of making -- Forming as knowing -- Gathering toward abstraction -- Rhyming -- Rhyme's opening -- How rhymes rhyme -- Meeting -- A freedom of association -- The visitors -- Persons as makers -- Conditions of making -- Production and reproduction -- The self's materials and the person's reception -- The sand castle.

ISBN: 0226773868 cloth : alk. paper 0226773876 pbk. : alk. paper 9780226773865 : cloth : alk. paper 9780226773872 : pbk. : alk. paper

LCCN: 2011018308

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Freedom and art
Poetry--Authorship
Creative writing

Subjects--Index Terms: Class of Spring 2014 John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities Fellow

LC Class. No.: PN1031

Dewey Class. No.: 808.1