"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, manifestos, 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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