The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft »

Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. His most recent books are The Muses Among Us (Georgia), and Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford. His book Having Everything Right: Essays of Place won a citation for excellence from the Western States Book Awards. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and children.

In a series of letters, essays, manifestos, and notes to the reader, Stafford (writing, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon) looks at the boundary between the work a writer wants to create and the hunches, griefs, secrets, and confusions that provide the raw material for it. There is no index or bibliography. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mary E. Bauer Morley - North Dakota Quarterly

... a delightful invitation to listen to the unlikely. And although it can be read as a "how-to" for the writing instructor or writing student, it is more in that it inspires through Stafford's personal anecdotes and thoughtful and philosophical reflections.