The Madness of Art: Interviews with Poets and Writers

by Robert S. Phillips

Robert Phillips's conversational yet penetrating approach yields self-assessments that read like new essays by the writers themselves. Conducted over the course of twenty years, many of these pieces were first published in the Paris Review. Taken from a passage Henry James, the title speaks to the" madness" that drives our greatest works of creativity. Phillips's interviews bring out this "madness" in its most important sense: the writers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815607830
• ISBN13: 9780815607830
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"