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  • World Enough & Time

  • On Creativity and Slowing Down
  • By: Christian McEwen
  • Narrated by: Christian McEwen
  • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Christian McEwen's calming voice brings her widely acclaimed book World Enough and Time to audiobook lovers.

Over the course of 10 years training teachers to write their own poems in order to pass the craft along to students, McEwen realized that nothing comes easily when life is conducted at a high rate of speed. She draws not only on personal experience, but on readings ranging from literary anecdote and poetry to Buddhism, anthropology, current news, and social history, all supplemented by interviews with contemporary writers and artists. This book stands up as both sustained narrative and occasional inspiration.

McEwen espouses the pleasure to be found in slowing down, both for the ease and comfort of the thing itself (taking time to go for a walk, to write down one's dreams, to read, to talk, to pray), and for its impact on creativity. There are chapters on walking, talking, drawing, dreaming, on "making space", on pausing/praying, on telling stories. World Enough and Time is aimed at the educated general listener, could be used as a creative primer, and will be of interest to creative-writing students and artists in every genre.

©2011 Christian McEwen (P)2014 Christian McEwen
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