Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry

by Stephen Dunn

Book Overview

Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W. W. Norton in 1993, now out of print. In Walking Light, Dunn discusses the relationship between art and sport, the role of imagination in writing poetry, and the necessity for surprise and discovery when writing a poem. Humorous, intelligent and accessible, Walking Light is a book that will appeal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929918003
• ISBN13: 9781929918003
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: BOA Editions
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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.