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Recommended Reading for April 2017

Our Ashland MFA faculty were asked to recommend books for developing writers. We're including instructional guides, anthologies, and classics of the craft, all meant to be helpful tools for your writing. Listed below are this month’s recommendations. Creative Nonfiction Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Recommended by Steve Harvey Walden is the finest and most influential collection of essays by an American writer.   It created an American voice for the personal essay and took on issues such as nature and personal responsibility that continue to be explored by American essayists who have followed such as Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Edward Abbey in Desert Solitaire .   Norton has a fine critical edition which combines Walden with another extremely influential essay, “Civil Disobedience.”                              Poetry The Resistance to Poetry  by James Longenbach Recommended by Angela Estes Th