Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch, Paperback
de: Michael Perry
Publicat de: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Anunta-ma cand revine pe stoc!``Every writer has advice for aspiring writers. Mine is predicated on formative years spent cleaning my father's calf pens: Just keep shoveling until you've got a pile so big, someone has to notice. The fact that I cast my life's work as slung manure simply proves that I recognize an apt metaphor when I accidentally stick it with a pitchfork. . . . Poetry was my first love, my gateway drug--still the poets are my favorites--but I quickly realized I lacked the chops or insights to survive on verse alone. But I wanted to write. Every day. And so I read everything I could about freelancing, and started shoveling.``
The pieces gathered within this book draw on fifteen years of what Michael Perry calls ``shovel time``--a writer going to work as the work is offered. The range of subjects is wide, from musky fishing, puking, and mountain-climbing Iraq War veterans to the frozen head of Ted Williams. Some assignments lead to self-examination of an alarming magnitude (as Perry notes, ``It quickly becomes obvious that I am a self-absorbed hypochondriac forever resolving to do better nutritionally and fitness-wise but my follow-through is laughable.``) But his favorites are those that allow him to turn the lens outward: ``My greatest privilege,`` he says, ``lies not in telling my own story; it lies in being trusted to tell the story of another.``General | |
Anul | 2017 |
Autor | Michael Perry |
Cod de bare | 9780870208409 |
Editura | Wisconsin Historical Society Press |
Dimensiuni | 209 x 139 x 16 |
ISBN | 0870208403 |
Limba | Engleza |
Pagini | 240 |
Format | Brosata |
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