The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making

by Susan Stewart

Book Overview

Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in The Poet's Freedom . Through a series of evocative essays, she not only argues that freedom is necessary to making and is itself something made, but also shows how artists give rules to their practices and model a self-determination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226773876
• ISBN13: 9780226773872
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.0"