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Illuminations is a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at the art of writing, with 55 thought-provoking passages on the nature of audience, the search for subject, the defense of poetry, the benefits of studying form, the equilibrium between art and life, the nexus between politics and prose, and much more. Each passage is accompanied by a stunning (and seldom seen) image of the author. Writers, teachers, and lovers of literature will revel in this collection of great writers from around the world and throughout history, including Dante, Boccaccio, Michel de Montaigne, Sei Shonagon, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Marina Tsvetaeva, Jorge Luis Borges, Edith Wharton, John Keats, Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel García Márquez, Ernest Hemingway, George Eliot, Marguerite Duras, Italo Calvino, George Orwell, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Fernando Pessoa, W. B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, William Carlos Williams, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, and Marianne Moore. Includes a complete list of sources.
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About the Author:
Christina Davis's poems and articles have appeared in Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, and Poets & Writers. She is the recipient of several fellowships and residencies at Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center. She is Editor at Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
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Christopher Edgar is the author of At Port Royal, a collection of poems, and the translator of Tolstoy as Teacher: Leo Tolstoy's Writings on Education. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000 and 2001. He is Publications Director at Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
The quotations are not mere epigrams....They provoke thought. They stretch mind and soul....A lively, essential conversation. --The Bloomsbury Review, Jan-Feb 2004
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- PublisherTeachers & Writers Collaborative
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0915924684
- ISBN 13 9780915924684
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages117
- EditorChristina Davis, Christopher Edgar
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