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New Letters to a Young Poet
Joan Margarit
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Description for New Letters to a Young Poet
Hardcover. Explores poetry as vocation, obsession, and partnership between writer and reader, a 'road toward inner growth'. This book is suitable for poets young and old, writers, and readers seeking insights into the creative process and 'the way both poet and reader can find their own way to face solitude'. Translator(s): Maurer, Christopher. Num Pages: 70 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem - the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic "Letters to a Young Poet", this slender volume explores poetry as vocation, obsession, and partnership between writer and reader, a 'road toward inner growth'. For Margarit, poetry promises 'a clarity that allows us mysteriously to live without the need to forget'. This is essential reading for poets young and old, writers, and readers seeking insights into the creative process and 'the way both poet and ... Read more
In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem - the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic "Letters to a Young Poet", this slender volume explores poetry as vocation, obsession, and partnership between writer and reader, a 'road toward inner growth'. For Margarit, poetry promises 'a clarity that allows us mysteriously to live without the need to forget'. This is essential reading for poets young and old, writers, and readers seeking insights into the creative process and 'the way both poet and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Swan Isle Press United States
Number of pages
70
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780974888194
SKU
V9780974888194
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About Joan Margarit
Joan Margarit is a Catalan poet and architect. He has won numerous awards for his previous books of poetry. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University.
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