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Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing
Forces of Imagination Writing on Writing Author:Barbara Guest Since her involvement with the group of writers known as the New York School in the 1960s, Barbara Guests writing has been admired for its elegance and lucidity. Especially prolific in the last decade, with each new publication she both refines and surprises, such that her influence is now felt across generations of writers and artists. S... more »panning three decades of work, this compilation of essays and talks comprises Barbara Guest's most comprehensive commentary to date on writing and poetics. In this volume, Guest uses a wide range of techniques--academic, aphoristic, lyrical, personal, biographical--to explore the phenomena of reading, writing, and thinking, and, in the process, she expands our understanding of what expository writing can do.« less