{"product_id":"to-be-the-poet-maxine-hong-kingston-9780674007918","title":"To Be the Poet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I have almost finished my longbook,\" Maxine Hong Kingston declares. \"Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark.\" \u003ci\u003eTo Be the Poet\u003c\/i\u003e is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry. Taking readers along with her, this celebrated writer gathers advice from her gifted contemporaries and from sages, critics, and writers whom she takes as ancestors. She consults her past, her conscience, her time--and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA manual on inviting poetry, on conjuring the elusive muse, \u003ci\u003eTo Be the Poet\u003c\/i\u003e is also a harvest of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to bursts of eloquence, wonder, and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maxine Hong Kingston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674007913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674007918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 5.74w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/19\/2002 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2002 pg. 94","brand":"Maxine Hong Kingston","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43920450617599,"sku":"9780674007918","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_58995a49-5d97-479c-8ac0-d6865c1c4a49.jpg?v=1680815434","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-be-the-poet-maxine-hong-kingston-9780674007918","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}