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The True subject / [by Jane Smiley ... and others] ; edited by Kurt Brown. - Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c1993. - 151 p. ; 23 cm. - Writers on life and craft. .

"Best writers' conference lectures"--P. [1] of cover.

Can mothers think? / Jane Smiley --
Nature's writing / Gary Snyder --
Regained detachment : on Thomas Mann, Gabriel García Márquez, and the new world order / Christopher Merrill --
Talking to the horse / Julian Gloag --
Failure / Michael Dennis Browne --
Doing good work together / William Kittredge --
The Art of memoir / Mary Clearman Blew --
The True subject : the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz / Agha Shahid Ali --
The Total writer / Bill Brashler --
The Impact of science on "poet's soul" / Miroslav Holub --
A Writer's sense of place / James D. Houston --
Auden's generalizations / Sidney Burris --
Oblivion : variations on a theme / Donald Justice --
Hearing silence : Western myth reconsiderd / Marilynne Robinson. TOC



ISBN: 1555971814 9781555971816

LCCN: 92043508

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Authorship.
Literature--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: PN151 / .T74 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 808.02 / TRU 1993