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| The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft | 
| Author: Kim R. Stafford
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 586871
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 138
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0820324965
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9780820324968
ASIN: 0820324965
Publication Date: March 2003
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Product Description
The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestoes, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls "what we almost know." On the boundary's far side is our story, our poem, our song. On this side are the resonant hunches, griefs, secrets, and confusions from which our writing will emerge. Guiding us from such glimmerings through to a finished piece are a wealth of experiments, assignments, and tricks of the trade that Stafford has perfected over thirty years of classes, workshops, and other gatherings of writers. Informing The Muses Among Us are Stafford's own convictions about writing - principles to which he returns again and again. We must, Stafford says, honor the fragments, utterances, and half-discovered truths voiced around us, for their speakers are the prophets to whom writers are scribes. Such filaments of wisdom, either by themselves or alloyed with others, give rise to our poems, stories, and essays. In addition, as Stafford writes, "all pleasure in writing begins with a sense of abundance - rich knowledge and boundless curiosity." By recommending ways for students to seek beyond the self for material, Stafford demystifies the process of writing and claims for it a Whitmanesque quality of participation and community.
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Exquisite, Life-Enhancing Prose June 18, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a writer, I love this beautiful little book.
As simply a reader, I still would have loved it!Son of outstanding poet, William Stafford,
Kim Robert Stafford has his own unique and beautiful writing style.
There is a succinct eloquence in his prose that,
at times, is so poetically breath-taking ~ one must stop,
go back and re-read the given passage to savour the
hidden nuance of deeper meaning. Stafford never rambles or drifts, he does not dwell
in the shallows of trite meaningless verbosity ~
each word he writes carries depth and insight,
each chapter enriches perception. This is pure literary kindling for any writer
who feels their creativity needs a little spark...
Serving to remind you, with every page,
of the original joy to be found in artistic craft.
Fresh Perspective and Insight March 25, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I came across this book at the local library in the new book section, had the book six weeks total and decided I had to buy it. There are simply too many subtleties, suggestions and insights to explore. If you aspire to be or if you are a writer, you'll treasure the ideas and admire the warm, personal tone of a man who invites you to open yourself to others, to the world around you and the world within. I didn't realize until part way through the book that Kim Stafford is an Oregon writer. It was good to see familiar places in fluid prose and through another's eyes.
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