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Madness of Art

Interviews with Poets and Writers

Author: Robert Phillips  

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Insightful interviews with eight masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska.

This work includes insightful interviews with eigth masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska.

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Insightful interviews with eight masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska.

This work includes insightful interviews with eigth masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska.

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This work includes insightful interviews with eigth masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska. Taken from a passage by Henry James, the title speaks to the ""madness"" that drives our greatest works of creativity.Robert Phillips questions his interviewees about their work methods, daily lives, influences, sources of inspiration, relationship to other literary figures, response to critics, choice of genre, and reasons for writing.

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Critic Reviews

“Robert Phillips has done a superb job. . . . I am filled with admiration for his knowledge, and for his ability to manage the moment.”

Robert Phillips has done a superb job....I am filled with admiration for his knowledge and for his ability to manage the moment. - Frederick Busch

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About the Author

Robert Phillips is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston. He has published numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and editions of literary works, including The New Selected Poems of Marya Zaturenska, also published by Syracuse University Press.

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Product Details

Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Published
30th March 2003
Edition
1st
Pages
221
ISBN
9780815607830

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