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The Madness of Art: Interviews with Poets and Writers

The Madness of Art: Interviews with Poets and Writers

Phillips, Robert

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0815607830
ISBN13: 9780815607830
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 2003
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.36
Language: English

Robert Phillips's conversational yet penetrating approach yields self-assessments that read like new essays by the writers themselves. Conducted over the course of twenty years, many of these pieces were first published in the Paris Review. Taken from a passage Henry James, the title speaks to the madness that drives our greatest works of creativity. Phillips's interviews bring out this madness in its most important sense: the writers are seers and visionaries, whose works inspire us beyond the limits of reason. The conversations recorded in The Madness of Art attain that same level of inspiration and power.

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, audience, and reasons for writing.

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