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Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sue William SilvermanPublish date:2024-01-01Pages:266
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496235756ISBN-10:1496235754UPC:9781496235756Book Category:Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Writing, Study & TeachingBook Topic:Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC7D0CM29A
2024 IPPY Silver Medal Winner

At times writers--from the unpublished to jaded lifers--need a fire lit under them to pursue the complex work of self-exploration. Acetylene Torch Songs provides that spark for memoirists and essayists seeking mentor-based instruction and inspiration.

Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching and mentoring writers, Sue William Silverman stresses practice over theory. She encourages craftiness as well as craft and urges writers to embark on emotional quests in pursuit of their art. Acetylene Torch Songs uniquely illustrates how the writer's imaginative spirit comes alive on the page through metaphor, literary masks, sensory memories, voice, obsessions, and more. This holistic approach to writing emphasizes how the creative process brings together the heart, mind, and senses to illuminate the human condition through language. Featuring a personal essay in each chapter, Silverman uses her own work to model a specific concept or approach, demonstrating how obsessions, secrets, and memories can burn on the page.

Through guided prompts, worksheets, checklists, publishing advice, personal essays, and strategies, Silverman encourages writers to find the confidence and courage to write stories that reach beyond the page through their intimacy, social engagement, and honesty.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496235756ISBN-10:1496235754UPC:9781496235756Book Category:Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Writing, Study & TeachingBook Topic:Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC7D0CM29A
Sue William Silverman is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet of eight books, including Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction (made into a Lifetime TV movie) and How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences (Nebraska, 2020). She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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