World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down

World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down

Over the course of ten years training teachers to write their own poems in order to pass the craft along to students, McEwen realized that nothing comes easily when life is conducted at a high rate of speed. She draws not only on personal experience, but on readings ranging from literary anecdote and poetry to Buddhism, anthropology, current news, and social history, all supplemented by interviews with contemporary writers and artists. This is a real readerâ€™s book, one that stands up as both sustained narrative and occasional inspiration.

McEwen espouses the pleasure to be found in slowing down, both for the ease and comfort of the thing itself (taking time to go for a walk, to write down oneâ€™s dreams, to read, to talk, to pray), and for its impact on creativity. There are chapters on walking, talking, drawing, dreaming, on â€œmaking space,â€ on pausing/praying, on telling stories. World Enough & Time is aimed at the educated general reader, could be used as a creative primer, and will be of interest to creative writing students and artists in every genre.
Country USA
Brand Bauhan Pub
Manufacturer Bauhan Publishing
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2011-05-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780872331464

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