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What Poets Are Like: Up and Down with the Writing Life
by Soto, Gary
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1570618747
- ISBN 13
- 9781570618741
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About This Item
Sasquatch Books, 2013-08-20. Hardcover. Like New. In fine, clean condition, with a remainder mark on the edge of the book, clean pages
Synopsis
Gary Soto, born April 12, 1952, was raised in Fresno, California. He is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry International, and Poetry, which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in the interview series Poets in Person. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. For ITVS, he produced the film The Pool Party , which received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Film Excellence. In 1997, because of his advocacy for reading, he was featured as NBC's Person-of-the-Week. In 1999, he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes. He is also the author of more than 35 books for young readers, including Baseball in April , Taking Sides , Too Many Tamales , and Chato's Kitchen .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- What Poets Are Like: Up and Down with the Writing Life
- Author
- Soto, Gary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1570618747
- ISBN 13
- 9781570618741
- Publisher
- Sasquatch Books
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, Wa
- Date Published
- 2013-08-20
- X weight
- 9 oz
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