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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Pagina 80
... matter how many times turned down , no matter how often I shrug and then move on to the next magazine , for a minute or two it still feels like I've been humiliated , smacked far across the croquet pitch if not decapitated , made to ...
... matter how many times turned down , no matter how often I shrug and then move on to the next magazine , for a minute or two it still feels like I've been humiliated , smacked far across the croquet pitch if not decapitated , made to ...
Pagina 164
... matter from energy . " Morgan is obsessed with origins , with conceptions , with pursuing what he slyly calls " alma matter " back to its beginnings . For some , this might be a religious or philosophical impulse ; for Morgan , it is a ...
... matter from energy . " Morgan is obsessed with origins , with conceptions , with pursuing what he slyly calls " alma matter " back to its beginnings . For some , this might be a religious or philosophical impulse ; for Morgan , it is a ...
Pagina 178
... Matter . Particularly in the longer second section of the book , Morgan continues to develop his familiar world : " the real word , " as he once wrote and appar- ently still believes , " is home . Homecoming . Homing . " 99 I'd like to ...
... Matter . Particularly in the longer second section of the book , Morgan continues to develop his familiar world : " the real word , " as he once wrote and appar- ently still believes , " is home . Homecoming . Homing . " 99 I'd like to ...
Inhoudsopgave
Back Home | 5 |
Unsent Letter to Robert Morgan | 17 |
Christmases with Flannery | 25 |
Copyright | |
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