World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down

Title: World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down Author: Christian McEwen ISBN: 9780872331464 Publisher: Bauhan Publishing Published: 2011 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Essays 1596483 Publisher Description: Over the course of ten years training teachers to write their own poems in order to pass the craft along to students, McEwen realized that nothing comes easily when life is conducted at a high rate of speed. She draws not only on personal experience, but on readings ranging from literary anecdote and poetry to Buddhism, anthropology, current news, and social history, all supplemented by interviews with contemporary writers and artists. This is a real reader's book, one that stands up as both sustained narrative and occasional inspiration. McEwen espouses the pleasure to be found in slowing down, both for the ease and comfort of the thi