How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers

by Wisława Szymborska

Book Overview

In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave--anonymously--for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life.
She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811229718
• ISBN13: 9780811229715
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.8"