The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an InterviewUniversity of Tennessee Press, 2006 - 207 pagina's The Napkin Manuscripts is a collection of twenty-two engaging prose pieces written over the past several decades by Michael McFee – poet, essayist, editor, and teacher. Taken together, they constitute a wide-ranging exploration of what working writers do, how they do it, and what it means. The book is divided into four parts: Section one is composed of personal essays, and is rooted in the landscape and culture of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where the author grew up and where he often returns for inspiration. Section two gathers essays about the literary life and writing, among them pieces on editing, on teaching, on memorizing poetry, on rejection slips, on typewriters, and on becoming and being a writer. Section three collects seven essays about individual Appalachian writers, among them Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, and Robert Morgan. Section four consists of a public interview conducted at the Michael McFee Literary Festival at Emory & Henry College a few years ago, and recapitulates many of the book’s topics in lively conversational form. The Napkin Manuscripts will appeal to anyone with a connection to Appalachia and the South; to readers interested in contemporary poetry and literature; and to teachers, writers, and students of poetry, essays, and creative non-fiction. |
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... early 1970s to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he earned A.B. and M.A. degrees , McFee has mostly lived far downhill from the mountains , but their peaks continue to loom in his mind and his work , and as ...
... early 1970s to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he earned A.B. and M.A. degrees , McFee has mostly lived far downhill from the mountains , but their peaks continue to loom in his mind and his work , and as ...
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... early age , whether Blue Ridge or Brooklyn ? Is there some essential qual- ity about the mountains that keeps calling me back ? What is it about the mountains that sets them apart from my adopted region , the place where I've chosen to ...
... early age , whether Blue Ridge or Brooklyn ? Is there some essential qual- ity about the mountains that keeps calling me back ? What is it about the mountains that sets them apart from my adopted region , the place where I've chosen to ...
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... early poem , “ The Okra Flower , " which is set in the mountains , “ I do not want to die here , away from home . " That poem was probably writ- ten in the early 1980s . Was " home " then already the Piedmont , and if so , how does the ...
... early poem , “ The Okra Flower , " which is set in the mountains , “ I do not want to die here , away from home . " That poem was probably writ- ten in the early 1980s . Was " home " then already the Piedmont , and if so , how does the ...
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Back Home | 5 |
Unsent Letter to Robert Morgan | 17 |
Christmases with Flannery | 25 |
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