Ambition and survival
Subtitle: becoming a poet
By: Christian Wiman.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781556592607
Subjects: Poetry -- Authorship
Description: Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet is a collection of stirring personal essays and critical prose on a wide range of subjects: reading Paradise Lost in Guatemala, recalling violent episodes from the poet's youth, traveling in Africa with an eccentric father, as well as a series of penetrating essays on poets, poetry, and poetry's place in our lives. The book concludes with a portrait of Wiman's diagnosis with a rare cancer, and a clear-eyed declaration of what it means - for an artist and a person - to have faith in the face of death. -- BOOK JACKET.