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My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

Price: 101.16 AED
Publisher: yale university press
Year of publication: 2022
ISBN: 9780300274141

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture

“Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.”―Ron Charles, 
Washington Post
 
“A lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers.”―Diego Báez, 
Booklist
 
In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an “apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered.” Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community.

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