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1) Inadvertent
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The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture given by the event's keynote speaker.In Inadvertent, internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals his beginnings as a writer and...
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Yale University Press
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2022
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English
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United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
"Her enduring message—that writing can be redemptive—resonates: 'To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert "I am."' The result is a rousing testament to the power of storytelling."—Publishers Weekly
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"Her enduring message—that writing can be redemptive—resonates: 'To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert "I am."' The result is a rousing testament to the power of storytelling."—Publishers Weekly
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In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers 50 years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction.
Science fiction dwells mostly in the realm of possibility, where mysteries proliferate nevertheless, meaning is never static, and “time and history have convinced us that things are not as they seem”. So, too, does all language, argues Samuel Delany, in his vigorous justification for the writing...
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