Words overflown by stars: creative writing instruction and insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. program

Publisher

Writers Digest Books

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Edition

1st ed.

Language

English

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From the Book - 1st ed.

Before we get started / Bret Lott

The girl I was, the woman I have become: fiction's reminiscent narrators / Ellen Lesser

From long shots to x-rays: distance and point of view in fiction / David Jauss

Breaking the "rules" of story structure / Diane Lefer

Notes of novel structure / Douglas Glover

Wake up and go to sleep: dreams and writing fiction / Philip Graham

Keeping open the wounds of possibility: the marvelous, the uncanny, and the fantastic in fiction / Christopher Noël

How do we mean what we do not say: the uses of omission in fiction / Victoria Redel

Multi-culti literati: or, ways of writing fiction beyond "PC" / Xu Xi

The textures of fiction: an inquiry / François Camoin

Showing and telling / Laurie Alberts

Painful howls from places that undoubtedly exist: a primer of deceit / Robin Hemley

The fictional "I" in nonfiction / Phyllis Barber

The meandering river: an overview of the subgenres of creative nonfiction / Sue William Silverman

"I recognize thy glory": on the American nature essay and lyric poetry / Sydney Lea

Poetic technique in nonfiction writing / Cynthia Huntington

Collaborating with chaos: not knowing and the creative process / Jack Myers

Staking the claim to the title / Nance Van Winckel

On beginnings / Mary Ruefle

Souls on ice / Mark Doty

Roots in our throats: a case for using etymology / Natasha Sajé

Mind the gap / Betsy Sholl

Towards a poetics of pull-and-release: some thoughts on silence in poems / Leslie Ullman

The word overflown by stars: saying the unsayable / Richard Jackson

The poem, as and of address / Ralph Angel

The changing other / William Olsen

Incidental music: the grotesque, the romantic, and the retrenched / Roger Weingarten

Striking the wrong hours: poetry and time / Nancy Eimers

Notes on notes, /: punctuation and poetry / Robin Behn

On voice and revision / Mark Cox

The writer as revisionary / Clare Rossini

"If you have to be sure don't write": poetry and self-doubt / David Wojahn.

Subjects

Authorship
Creative writing (Higher education)
Creative writing (Higher education) -- United States
English language
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Fiction
Fiction -- Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Poetry
Poetry -- Authorship -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Rhetoric
Study and teaching (Higher)

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Contributors

Jauss, David
Vermont College of Fine Arts

ISBN

9781582975405
158297540

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