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Two award-winning authors reveal everything you need to know to
develop your own distinctive voice and craft compelling, creative
nonfiction When Emily Dickinson wrote "Tell all the Truth but tell
it Slant," she offered sound advice for nonfiction writers: tell
the truth but become more than mere transcribers of day to day
life. In this invaluable guide, two award-winning authors show you
how to take advantage of your own unique take on the world to
create elegant nonfiction. In this book, you will find intensive
writing instruction, an abundance of writing exercises, and more.
This updated third edition covers the most up-to-date trends in
nonfiction publishing, such as writing about gender and body size.
It also includes practical advice for navigating the publishing
industry. Whether you're a writing student or looking to launch a
writing career, this book will help you take your writing skills to
the next level. Features *3 new chapters: Fresh content on writing
about identity-centered topics, maintaining a productive work/life
balance, and navigating the publishing industry*Fully updated:
Offers new advice on revision, research, and publishing*Expert
authors: Miller and Paola are college English professors and
award-winning authors*Will show you how to develop a distinctive
voice and use fresh language*Includes a wealth of writing exercises
that will motive you to keep making progress*Provides insider
information on how to conduct research and get published
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Bardo (Paperback, New)
Suzanne Paola; Edited by Donald Hall
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Paola's poetry presents a series of life's bardo experiences: drug
use; the refused birth of infertility; the social implications of
the female body; and the afterworld of pop culture. Bardo travels
to a place where to be human is to be part god/part sickness/always
wondering which is which.
The image of the rose winds through the book, symbol of eternity
and transience, gravity and folly. We find it in the ghastly bloom
of the atomic bomb, in the relic of St. Therese of Lisieux, in the
wool of a cloned sheep. Its image glows silently under the Waste
Isolation Projects of Yucca Mountain and New Mexico, in the U.S.
Human Radiation Experiments, in the altars constructed at the
schoolyard gate of the Columbine massacre. The poems -- witty, sly,
sensitive, and immensely informed -- trace the spiritual inquiries
of a series of linked personae adrift in bodies and a world made
toxic by the residues of scientific experimentation. Paola's
dramatic monologues begin and end with the same fictional narrator,
a wry, cynical, cake-baking woman who, on learning of the atomic
structure of all matter, begins a lifetime of questioning. At times
blasphemous, at times poignant and humorous, these voices are never
less than heartbreakingly human, and the words they utter chill
with their honesty. The Lives of the Saints is a stark, wise,
meticulously researched book by a writer whose reputation leaps
forward with each publication.
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