Biespiel, David
Summary: The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel’s moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Impelled by the wonder and delight of creativity, and how the presence of books assists emotional development, Biespiel writes for every creative person who longs to shape the actions of their world into art and literature. Exploring the original sources of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIESPIEL, DAVID BIEKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KUNGrogan, Jake
Summary: "A collection of the true stories that inspired 202 of the world's most famous books"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 808.3 GROSmith, Patti
Summary: "In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SMIMcPhee, John
Summary: The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808 MCPCarter, Ally
Summary: Have you always wanted to write a book, but don't know where to start? Or maybe you're really great at writing the first few chapters . . . but you never quite make it to the end? Or do you finally have a finished manuscript, but you're not sure what to do next? Fear not -- if you have writing-related questions, this book has answers! Whether you're writing for fun or to build a career,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 808 CARBennett, Paula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BENGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARGaiman, Neil
Summary: "Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's vision--an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives"
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OATFlaherty, Alice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 FLASummary: "Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge! Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 810.8 CREAnders, Charlie Jane
Summary: "Things are scary right now. We're all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it's easy to feel helpless. But we're not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Lacey, Catherine
Summary: An "illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century ... from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 LACMaisel, Eric
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.P. Tarcher 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MAIMcPhee, John
Summary: "Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 MCPNicolson, Adam
Summary: June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020