Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs

by Stephen Dunn

Book Overview

The renowned poet presents essays exploring the mysteries of composition and the nature of poetry, as well as anecdotal memoirs on such diverse subjects as basketball, storytelling, and silence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393034887
• ISBN13: 9780393034882
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Collection to Inspire Writers

A college creative writing teacher first introduced me to this book in 1997 and I have loved to visit it over years. Dunn writes in a way that is distinctly personal, humorous, sincere, and sometimes brutally honest. He is a gifted storyteller who is able to weave writing advice effortlessly in with his tales. I would recommend my "favorite" chapters, but feel like this is a book best discovered without someone else's prejudices. This book can be read straight through from cover to cover, or the reader can skip around and read based on a chapter heading that catches his/her interest. Pick up this book and you'll want to seek out the rest of Dunn's writing.