A Braided Heart by Brenda Miller
Offers a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. The book also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today's emerging forms in creative nonfiction: from the short-short, to the braided form, to the hermit crab essay.
"Miller soars when she captures such personal, vivid details…solid and practical…aspiring writers will find some sound advice”
—Publishers Weekly
"In A Braided Heart, Brenda Miller delivers a master class on the composition and appreciation of autobiographical essays. ...It exemplifies as much as it teaches, citing everyone from Mark Doty to Virginia Woolf as it encourages readers to embrace a reflective mindset, drawing connections between life experiences and pinpointing moments of meaning."
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"A Braided Heart is a pot of perfectly steeped tea with two cups. The book is a testament to the tensile strength of essay. No matter how the form is bent, so long as the writer remains in conversation, the connection maintains, this friendship through words."
—Kelly K. Ferguson, Brevity
Brenda Miller is Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780472054923 |
| ISBN 10 | 0472054929 |
| Title | A Braided Heart |
| Author | Brenda Miller |
| Series | Writers On Writing |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Michigan Press |
| Year published | 2021-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 148 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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