A Braided Heart

Essays on Writing and Form

Brenda Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

148 Seiten

2021
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07492-1 (ISBN)

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An accessible and personable guide to writing creative nonfiction

A Braided Heart provides a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. It also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today’s emerging forms in creative nonfiction: from the short-short, to the braided form, to the hermit crab essay. An acknowledged expert in these forms, Brenda Miller gives writers practical advice on how to sustain and invigorate their writing practice, while also encouraging readers to explore their own writing lives.

“Brenda Miller writes so beautifully in these lyrical and ‘braided’ essays—personal meditations that take us deep into the miracle of writing itself. Her eye is always alert, her ear wonderfully tuned to the nuances of perception. The art of the essay is alive and well in her hands.”
—Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me

Brenda Miller is Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.

Acknowledgements
Preface by Jay Parini
Section One
First Words
Fan
Hand, Writing
Durable Goods
On Thermostats
The Case Against Metaphor: An Apologia
Section Two
A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay
“Brenda Miller Has a Cold,” or: How a Lyric Essay Happens
A Case Against Courage in Creative Nonfiction
Writing Inside the Web: Creative Nonfiction in the Age of Connection
The Fine Art of Containment in Creative Nonfiction
The Shared Space Between Reader and Writer: A Case Study
Section Three
In Memoriam
On the Power of Your Word
On Friendship, Assignments, Detail, and Trust
Cables, Chains, and Lariats: Form as Process
The Shape of Emptiness
Epilogue
Collaboration in the Time of Covid-19
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Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Writers on Writing
Verlagsort	Ann Arbor
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-472-07492-X / 047207492X
ISBN-13	978-0-472-07492-1 / 9780472074921
Zustand	Neuware