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Host Jo Reed and AudioFile Editor Robin Whitten discuss this nonfiction audiobook chock full of ideas. Poet Maggie Smith’s newest audiobook offers all kinds of artists helpful advice about what she sees as the 10 essential elements of creativity: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Her light, sweet-sounding voice often assumes a poet’s studied rhythmic cadence as she narrates with beautifully clear enunciation. Smith’s advice is both kind and tough-minded. What’s most important, she emphasizes, is that “we have to love making things more than we love having made them.”
Read our review of the audiobook at our website
Published by Simon & Schuster Audio
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Host Jo Reed and AudioFile Editor Robin Whitten discuss this nonfiction audiobook chock full of ideas. Poet Maggie Smith’s newest audiobook offers all kinds of artists helpful advice about what she sees as the 10 essential elements of creativity: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Her light, sweet-sounding voice often assumes a poet’s studied rhythmic cadence as she narrates with beautifully clear enunciation. Smith’s advice is both kind and tough-minded. What’s most important, she emphasizes, is that “we have to love making things more than we love having made them.”
Read our review of the audiobook at our website
Published by Simon & Schuster Audio
Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile’s website
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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