Working Words by Christopher Davis

Working Words by Christopher Davis

Writing can be learned but can't be taught. What can be taught is how to read as a writer and how to use what that tells us in our own writing. By reading in this way we will put our hand on Leo Tolstoy's, Ernest Hemingway's, Flannery O'Connor's, and others' as they create in order to discover what they did to make us believe in the worlds that explode out of their pages, worlds that conjured in us the passion that brought us to our own attempt at the art of writing.

Creative writing teacher and author Christopher Davis discusses the craft of the best writers in order to understand how they did their work, helps students to become good writers by finding the right way to read, and encourages good teachers to be better shepherds.

Brilliant and inspirational, Working Words is a must for every student and teacher of writing.

The artistry of novelist Christopher Davis is one of the secrets of contemporary fiction.-Don Gold, Chicago Sun-Times

CHRISTOPHER DAVIS is the author of The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future (1990), which won an Associated Writing Programs Poetry Award, and The Patriot (1998), which appeared in the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Journal, Black Warrior Review, and in several anthologies. Born in Los Angeles, he received an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1985, and is now an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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ISBN 13	9780595459506
ISBN 10	0595459501
Title	Working Words
Author	Christopher Davis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	iUniverse
Year published	2007-10-04
Number of pages	204
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