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Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite
advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight
and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching
and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a
book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in
developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the
sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to
publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in
the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models
to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.
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A House, Undone (Paperback)
T Clear; Edited by Lana Hechtman Ayers; Selected by Priscilla Long
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Holy Magic (Paperback)
Priscilla Long
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The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the
questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his
1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We
Going? These questions look beyond every- day trivialities to
ponder the essence of our origins. Using her own story as a
touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we
are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an
identical twin on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland;
the turmoil, social change, and music of the 1960s; the suicide of
a sister; and a life in art in the Paci c Northwest. Here, memoir
extends the threads of the writer's individual and very personal
life to science, to history, and to ancestors, both literary and
genetic, back to the Neanderthals. Long uses profoundly poetic
personal essays to draw larger connections and to ask compelling
questions about identity. Framed by four distinctive sections, Fire
and Stone transcends genre and evolves into a sweeping elegy on
what it means to be human.
Long's work begs to be read aloud in order to savor the rich
language and rhythm she instills in each poem. She explores the
beauty of specific bridges while employing them as a metaphor for
crossings to death (a sister's suicide), eros, and art. Part elegy,
the book also explores living, remembering, and celebrating.
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