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A Story Larger Than My Own Author: Janet Burroway
ISBN: 9780226014104 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 192 Published: 6 January 2014 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 5.5 x 8.5 x 1.5 Description: In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. ?Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine?but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work.
Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo and ultimately finding success for themselves, they paved the way for future generations of writers. In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives.
The essays and poems featured in this collection illustrate that even writers who achieve critical and commercial success experience a familiar pattern of highs and lows over the course of their careers. Along with success comes the pressure to sustain it, as well as a constant search for subject matter, all too frequent crises of co...
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