A Braided Heart

Essays on Writing and Form
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-472-05492-3
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 214 g

Reihe: Writers On Writing

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Brenda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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
- Sources

Über Autor(innen)

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