The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making by Susan Stewart
By Susan Stewart
Why will we want new artwork? How unfastened is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and especially the poet, a determine of freedom in Western tradition? The MacArthur Award–winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders those questions in The Poet’s Freedom. via a sequence of evocative essays, she not just argues that freedom is critical to creating and is itself anything made, but additionally indicates how artists supply ideas to their practices and version a self-determination that would serve in different spheres of work.
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