Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kingston, Maxine Hong

Titel

To Be the Poet

Ist Teil von

• The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

Link zu anderen Inhalten

• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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