An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the Writing Life a more complex and cooperative venture Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.--Ron Charles, Washington Post A lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers.--Diego Báez, Booklist In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the Writing life, an apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered.
Phillips\'s book serves as a partner in speculation and an invitation to embrace mystery..
In the tradition of Anne Lamott\'s Bird by Bird , Rainer Maria Rilke\'s Letters to a Young Poet , and Marcus Aurelius\'s Meditations , this is an invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey.
Drawing on forty years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers, he weaves his experiences as a poet with the necessary survival skills, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community.
An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the Writing Life a more complex and cooperative venture Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.--Ron Charles, Washington Post A lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers.--Diego Báez, Booklist In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the Writing life, an apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered
