{"product_id":"how-to-start-writing-and-when-to-stop","title":"How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt once kind and hilarious, this compilation of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s advice to writers is illustrated with her own marvelous collages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: “I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,” she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave―anonymously―for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life.\u003cbr\u003e      She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly. “I sigh to be a poet,” Miss A. P. from Bialogard exclaims. “I groan to be an editor,” Szymborska responds.\u003cbr\u003e      Szymborska stubbornly insists on poetry’s “prosaic side”: “Let’s take the wings off and try writing on foot, shall we?” This delightful compilation, translated by the peerless Clare Cavanagh, will delight readers and writers alike.\u003cbr\u003e       Perhaps you could learn to love in prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42522787807472,"sku":"9780811229715","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/9780811229715.jpg?v=1747806205","url":"https:\/\/landmark-booksellers.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-start-writing-and-when-to-stop","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}