• STUDENT ACCOUNTS
  • STUDENT ACCESS
  • FACULTY ACCESS
  • 0Shopping Cart
MFA Program for Writers | Warren Wilson
  • OUR PROGRAM
    • Program Overview
    • Residency
    • Tuition and Fees
    • FAQs
  • FACULTY
    • Current Semester Faculty
    • All Active Faculty
    • Past Faculty
  • ALUMNI
    • Alumni Information & Bibliography
    • Post-Graduate Semester
    • Fellowships and Stipends
    • Request a Transcript
  • NEWS
  • APPLY
  • CONTACT
  • SHOP THE MFA STORE
    • Audio recordings: Residency lectures
    • Books: Faculty anthologies
    • Videos: Craft and the Writing Life series
    • Collections
  • Search
  • Menu Menu

Joan Aleshire: Out of Extremity: Emotion and Conscience (July 1989)

$5.00

Joan Aleshire considers how literature addressing extremes of human experience must establish a balance between the personal and the universal, the inner and the outer world.

Looking at poems by Bishop, Kunitz, Lowell, Mandelstam, Olds and others, she warns against glorifying or overdramatizing the pain which is a fundamental part of life. At the same time, she argues, with Kafka, that the well-made work of literature wields the power of an ax “to break the frozen sea within us” and deliver us to ourselves.

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Poetry
  • Additional information

Additional information

Faculty Member

Aleshire, Joan

Residency

1989 – July

Related products

  • Margot Livesey: The Hidden Machinery (January 1999)

    $5.00
  • Debra Spark: Cheer Up—Why Don’t You? (July 2002)

    $5.00
  • Chuck Wachtel: Narrative Voice, Beyond Persona (January 1994)

    $5.00
  • Laura Kasischke: The End: A Lecture (July 2004)

    $5.00

The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College

701 Warren Wilson Rd. Swannanoa, NC 28778
[email protected]     (828) 771-3715

STUDENT ACCOUNTS      STUDENT ACCESS      FACULTY ACCESS

© 2023 MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson :: Website by Integritive Web Design :: Asheville, NC
Alan Shapiro: Technique of Empathy: Free Indirect Style (January 2011)Carl Dennis – The Voice of Authority (January 1989)
Scroll to top