Title: The Demon and the Angel : Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0151005389
ISBN 13: 9780151005383
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st.
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.102 pounds

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In a groundbreaking exploration of the sources and mysteries of artistic creativity, the author of How to Read a Poem examines the concept of "duende," the potent power of creativity that results in a work of art, as he looks art how different artists--including Paul Klee, T. S. Eliot, Herman Melville, William Blake, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Plath--respond to the creative impulse. 25,000 first printing.

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Edward Hirsch is the author of five books of poetry, as well as the acclaimed How to Read a Poem. A frequent contributor to leading magazines and periodicals, including the New Yorker, DoubleTake, and American Poetry Review, he has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.

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