To Be the Poet

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About the author

Maxine Hong Kingston is Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. For her memoirs and fiction, including The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and Hawaii One Summer, Kingston has earned numerous awards, among them the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Pen West Award for Fiction, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the rare title, “Living Treasure of Hawai‘i.”

Summary

To Be the Poet is Kingston’s manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Kingston Maxine Hong, Maxine Hong Kingston
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 16.09.2002
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9780674007918
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00791-8
• Pages: 123
• Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization; William E. Massey Sr. Lectures; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies; William E. Massey Sr. Lectures > 12; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
• Subjects: POETRY / General, Poetry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets