Quest

Original memoirs by outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds who recall how they found their beginnings. While university creative writing programs generally seek to develop the talents of maturing writers, essential information about the development of the craft will be found in these early memoirs. As poet and Writing Professor David St. John wrote the previous anthology: " Simply the best collection of essays I've ever read about the urgencies, accidents, experiences, and desires that allow people to emerge as the writers they had never dreamt they might become."