The Right Word - Hardcover

Inhaltsangabe

Tools of the trade-artists have their palettes and easels, sculptors their chisels and knives, but writers? Their tool kit is that cornucopia of words, overflowing in richness yet ever so challenging in the care and precision it demands of those who dare employ them. This latest volume of works by members of The Literary Club offers examples of the beauty, the power and sheer magic of words artfully crafted. On display are stories and poems reflecting the labors of a group of club members embarked on that elusive search for the right word to express their thoughts and ideas. One of the essayists even wonders whether finding the right one is indeed an impossible task. Leading off the collection is a poetic set of meditations on words by the club's unofficial poet laureate, Richard Hague. Then readers are taken on literary adventures by others-to an eatery called Irk's, to a classroom encounter with mud, to a soiree with Madame X, and much more. Finally, we dip into the club's archives, now spanning 175 years of writing, for some words about celebrated writers who should have been enrolled in our membership but somehow weren't. We hope that readers of this volume will savor the outpouring of words as much as those did who assembled them.

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