Creative Composition: Preliminary Edition

by Eileen Pollack, Jeremiah Chamberlin, Natalie Bakopoulos

Barely used. Very minimal to no markings. Maybe opened 3-4 times all semester.

576 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Eileen Pollack grew up in Liberty, New York. She has received fellowships from the Michener Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, and her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, the Literary Review, the AGNI Review, Playgirl, and the New Generation. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, and teaches at Tufts University. She won the Pushcart Prize for her story “Past, Future, Elsewhere.”

Reviews

[Jennifer Solheim · Rating 5 out of 5]

As both a pedagogical work and a collection of essays, this book is WONDERFUL. Just looking over the table of contents is a pleasure (John McPhee, Zadie Smith, E.B. White, George Saunders, Eula Biss...). The introductions to the sections and essays, as well as the questions at the end of essays, are so thoughtful, practical, and clear. I can imagine that if I were an undergraduate opening the book for a course, I'd have much the same reaction that I did in my first undergrad CNF workshop, in which the main book was Phillip Lopate's The Art of the Personal Essay: like a kid on Christmas. Bravo!

[D'Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Never have I read a textbook so voraciously from cover to cover. I am definitely using this in my 125 class in the fall.