Poetry Daily is featuring an essay from Lee Upton’s new book Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity and Secrecy. It’s an astute, resourceful and even inspiring essay about writing with courage and independence, instead of egotism. It’s also representative of at least the first half of the book. Probably the second half, too, but I haven’t had time to read it all yet. I recommend the essay, the book and the rest of Poetry Daily’s site, which has long been the gold standard for readers and lovers of poems, literary news and essays about poetry. You can go to the Upton essay here:
http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_upton_ambition.php
