Jeffrey Skinner: 2 books
The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets
A Self-Help Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a life. Revealing, hilarious, and peppered with sly takes on the ins and outs of contemporary American poetry (chapters include "The Silence of the Iambs,"...
Passing the Word
Writers on Their Mentors
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
An “entertaining collection of tributes and insights” from Jay McInerney and other novelists and poets about the writers who inspired them (Booklist).
In this “significant contribution to our understanding of how an older generation of writers . . . affected its students”, an assembly...