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Natalie Goldberg— Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg's classic, Writing Down the Bones, broke new ground in its approach to writing as a practice. Now, Old Friend from Far Away -- her first book since Writing Down the Bones to focus solely on writing -- reaffirms Goldberg's status as a foremost teacher of writing, and transforms the practice of writing memoir. To write memoir, we must first know how to remember. Through timed, associative, and meditative exercises, Old Friend from Far Away guides you to the attentive state of thought in which you discover and open forgotten doors of memory. At once a beautifully written celebration of the memoir form, an innovative course full of practical teachings, and a deeply affecting meditation on consciousness, love, life, and death, Old Friend welcomes aspiring writers of all levels and encourages them to find their uniquevoice to tell their stories. Goldberg's enormously popular workshops have given countless students the ability to heed the call to write. Old Friend from Far Away recreates her trademark workshop style with its terse, demanding "sprints" that train the hand and mind to quicken their pace and give up conscious control. These exercises divert the eye from obvious and redirect it to the tactile details we miss, the embarrassments we pass over, and the complications we overlook in the blur of everyday living. With Old Friend as the road map for getting started and following through, writers and readers will gain a deeper understanding of their own minds, learn to connect with their senses in order to find the detail and truth that give their written words power and authenticity, and unfold the natural structure of the stories they carry within. Natalie Goldberg is a poet, teacher, writer, and painter. A student of Zen Buddhism, she trained intensively with Dainin Katagiri for 12 years at the Minnesota Zen Center, and is ordained in the Order of Interbeing with Thich Nhat Hanh. Natalie Goldberg teaches writing based on the methods first presented in her best-selling book, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Her other books include Wild Mind (an expansion of the ideas about writing that she first expressed in Writing Down The Bones); Long Quiet Highway (a memoir of her lifelong search for a spiritual teacher and her eventual taking refuge in Buddhism); Banana Rose (a novel); Living Color; Thunder and Lightning (an exploration of what to do with the writing that is generated through writing practice); Top of My Lungs (a collection of Natalie's poetry and paintings); and The Great Failure (a memoir of coming to terms with her legacies from her father and from her Zen teacher). |
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| Price: | $25.00 | ||||
| Size: | 332 pages | ||||
| Styles: | Hardcover, Signed First Edition | ||||
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