My Trade Is Mystery

Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

My Trade Is Mystery
Carl Phillips
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24 Jan 2023 US
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9780300257878
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An invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture In this intimate and eloquent meditation, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about what he calls an "apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered," through forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers. He weaves together his experiences as a poet and prose writer with discussions of underexplored elements of the writing life, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community. In the tradition of Anne Lamott' s Bird by Bird, Rainer Maria Rilke' s Letters to a Young Poet, and Marcus Aurelius' s Meditations, this is an invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey. Phillips' s book serves as a partner in speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery.
Carl Phillips is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020. His most recent prose book is The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination. Phillips lives in St. Louis, where he teaches at Washington University.
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ISBN-13: 9780300257878
Published: 24 Jan 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 203mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 112

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