Fathering Words The Making of an African American Writer

Name: Fathering Words The Making of an African American Writer
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ISBN: 9780312241360

ISBN-10: 0312241364

ISBN-13: 9780312241360

Edition: 2000

Authors: E. Ethelbert Miller

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The poet's journey begins in the heart. Here is a memoir from a poet that reminds us to pursue writing as much as love. Moving beyond the loss of both his father and brother, E. Ethelbert Miller tells the story of how love survived in his family. When Miller was about ten years old, his father told him how he could have left his mother. Years later, now a writer and a father, Miller looks back on that simple remark and how it shaped him. In Fathering Words, Miller explores his development as an African American writer, the responsibility of his chosen career, and his ambitions to raise the consciousness of black people. Gradually, Miller comes to see that when his father told him he could…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 6/9/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748

E. Ethelbert Miller was born in New York City in 1950. Author of 8 collections of poetry, he is the Founder and Director of the Ascension Poetry Reading Series and the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University.