Facing the Lion

Now writers or would-be writers can read the most provocative and the most useful lectures on life and craft presented at such select conferences as Bread Loaf, the Wesleyan Writers' Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. In these addresses, Ellen Bryant Voigt, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read.

Preface
Else and Other: A Nonwriter Addresses the Nonwriters at a Writer's Conference	p. 1
Facing the Lion: The Way of Shadow and Light in Some Twentieth-Century Poems	p. 14
Paint Brushes vs. Rollers: On Class Warfare, Honor, and the Cosmos	p. 33
Zapata's Disciple and Perfect Brie	p. 45
Seeing in the Dark	p. 52
A Moment's Thought	p. 66
Secrets of the Talking Leaf	p. 84
Between Two Silences	p. 99
The Loneliness of the Writer	p. 104
Straw, Feathers and Dust	p. 114
A Word in Favor of Rootlessness	p. 131
Fiction in the Age of Caring	p. 138
Raising the Dead	p. 149
On the Balance Between Art and Life: An Internal Dialogue	p. 166
About the Authors	p. 183
Acknowledgments	p. 187
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