The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making

by Susan Stewart

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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"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Authorship Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Publishing & Books Rhetoric Words, Language & Grammar

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