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In an elegant but contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin breaks down the creative process step-by-step, guiding the reader through a practical course in how to begin and end a work of literature, whether fiction or nonfiction, poetry, or prose

The distinguished author of more than twenty-two books, many award-winning,…

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1 author picked Out Of Silence, Sound. Out Of Nothing, Something. as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I have read other books by Susan Griffin, including Women & Nature and A Chorus of Stones, but this one is my favorite.

Susan Griffin is a writer and a poet, she is also a long-time writing teacher. Her book is made up of a series of miniature essays—what the poet Ross Gay calls “essayettes”—which can be read in any order. Subjects include “Silence,” “False Starts,” “Taking Time,” and “Killing the Angel in the House,” most of them no longer than a paragraph or two.

Because each one rests like an island in its own private sea of white space,…

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