A delicate aggression : savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop / David O. Dowling.
A delicate aggression : savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop / David O. Dowling.
A delicate aggression : savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop / David O. Dowling.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/2432
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English
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xi, 420 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- 1. The brilliant misfit : Flannery O'Connor -- 2. The star : W. D. Snodgrass -- 3. The suicide : Robert Shelley -- 4. The professional : R. V. Cassill -- 5. The guru : Marguerite Young -- 6. The turncoat : Robert Lowell -- 7. Mad poets : Dylan Thomas and John Berryman -- 8. Celebrity...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Connecticut
Date Published
[2019]
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"As the world's preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, six U.S. poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program...
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A delicate aggression : savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop / David O. Dowling.
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Includes bibliographic references and index.
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G 2019/2432
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0300215843 hardcover
9780300215847 hardcover
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808.042
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991024244716402626
