TY - GEN N2 - I have almost finished my longbook, Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin.I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry. DO - 10.4159/9780674039636 DO - doi AB - I have almost finished my longbook, Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin.I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry. T1 - To Be the Poet / AU - Kingston, Maxine Hong, JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 CN - PS3561.I52 ǂb Z48 2002eb LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1478528 KW - Authors, American KW - Chinese American women KW - Poetry KW - POETRY / American / General. SN - 9780674039636 TI - To Be the Poet / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039636 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039636 ER -