Page to Page: Retrospectives of Writers from the Seattle Review - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295985186 ISBN 13: 9780295985183

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2006

Synopsis

This spirited and delectable collection of sixteen retrospectives from The Seattle Review, a renowned journal featuring literary luminaries of the Northwest, offers a timeless resource for writers, cultural historians, and bibliophiles everywhere. It includes interviews with some of America's greatest writers as well short literary works and an assortment of their personal photographs spanning several decades of their lives. The essays, beguiling photographs, and articulate and intriguing discussions on literary composition offer a rare insight into the lives and art of these exceptional writers. To learn more about the Seattle Review go to http://depts.washington.edu/seaview/index.html

About this title

Review:

This is a volume over which lovers of the written word will linger as they meet old friends or make new ones through these memorable portraits.

--Library Journal

Page to Page is a treasure.

--The Seattle Times

About the Author:

Colleen McElroy, editor of The Seattle Review and compiler of this anthology, is the author of twelve books of prose and poetry, including Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar. Brenda Peterson, author of numerous novels, essays, and other works of non-fiction, is an award-winning nature writer. Writers featured: Lynda Barry, Rick Bass, Nelson Bentley, Marilyn Chin, Ivan Doig, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, Yusef Komunyakaa, Denise Levertov, Larry Levis, N. Scott Momaday, Sharon Olds, Sonia Sanchez, William Stafford, David Wagoner, Diane Wakoski.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0295985186
• ISBN 13: 9780295985183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: McElroy Colleen J.