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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically
Paperback
An illuminating exploration of how to read and understand poetry and how reading critically can teach us to write
Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
Hardback
The celebrated National Book Award–winning writer’s intimate exploration of how fact is transformed into fiction
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling
Paperback
An introduction to Eastern storytelling that opens readers’ minds to radically different ways of telling a satisfying story
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions
Hardback
This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrises the boggles of our palaver*
Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing
Paperback
A vivid, intimate, and inspiring exploration of how to write through persona, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning founder of an influential writing school.