My Poor Elephant: 27 Male Writers at Work

by Eve Shelnutt

What sends men to writing, making them not be mechanics or doctors? In these essays Fred Chappell, Madison Smartt Bell, and others confront a three-fold tension: the deep urge to write, the romantic fantasy to be a writer, and the bottom-line need to earn money. Eve Shelnutt says They speak with a rare humility and gratitude about the 'clumsy walk' that writing is. 27 photographs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563520281
• ISBN13: 9781563520280
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Longstreet Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"