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Allen, Roberta was born on October 6, 1945 in New York City. Daughter of Sol and Jeanette (Waldner) Allen.
(Fiction. Introduction by Luisa Valenzuela. A young Americ...)
Fiction. Introduction by Luisa Valenzuela. A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In THE DREAMING GIRL, Roberta Allen's exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves. "A literary descendant of Duras, Allen places her unnamed narrator in an exotic Central American limbo that propels her mind into a mesmerizing state somewhere between memory and fantasy"—Ken Foster, The Village Voice. "A choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed... The girl's jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist"—Mary Mackey, The American Book Review. "Roberta Allen transmits the pain and compensating strangeness of living in vignettes as urgent and enigmatic as telegrams"—John Ashbery.
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For anyone who has ever dreaded the blank page or struggled to find something to write and then agonized over how best to write it, or has simply found writing to be hard work, The Playful Way to Serious Writing breaks down common writing barriers and frees the writer within. Drawing on extensive experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist, short story writer, and author of Fast Fiction, has created a unique book of writing exercises packed with hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues. The key, Allen says, is ENERGY, "the force behind the words, the desire to bring forth something that has never before existed." Allen's ENERGY METHOD, which focuses creativity without interruption or that nagging inner critic, can be used for any type of creative effort at any level -- stories, novels, plays, memoirs, sketches, journals, and more. Attractive, engaging, funny, and free ranging, The Playful Way to Serious Writingis more than just a writing guide -- it is an endless sourcebook of ideas and a trusted creative companion.
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(With The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself, the creativity ...)
With The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself, the creativity coach Roberta Allen at last reveals a practical method for changing, or simply enhancing, the way you look at yourself -- and others. Employing her signature combination of verbal directives and visual cues, Allen has created a dynamic workbook that prompts you to look at yourself from angles and perspectives you would not otherwise see. When traditional barriers are broken down through these refreshing, unpretentious, and gently probing exercises, the results can range from subtle to astonishing. At the very least, you will get surprising glimpses of yourself. At best, you will have deep insights that lead you to action or to accepting yourself just as you are. Allen's "playful way" approach has elicited praise from all corners -- from graduate school professors to best-selling authors to therapists to high school teachers to hundreds of former students. Whether used as a journal or a keepsake or a serious self-help tool, The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself will take you on a delightful, illuminating, and inevitably fulfilling personal journey. In the end you will know yourself better than ever before.
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conceptual artist Fiction and nonfiction writer
Allen, Roberta was born on October 6, 1945 in New York City. Daughter of Sol and Jeanette (Waldner) Allen.
Associate of Applied Science, Fashion Institute Technology, New York City, 1964; postgraduate, Institute Bellas Artes, Mexico.
Lecturer Corcoran School Art, Washington, 1975, Kutztown State College, 1979, Commonwealth Post College, 1979. Instructor creative writing Parsons School Design, New York City, 1986. Instructor The Writer's Voice, 1992—1997, The New School, since 1993, Department Continuing Education, New York University, 1993—1999.
Tennessee Williams fellow, writer-in-residence University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1998. Adjunct assistant professor Columbia University School of the Arts, 1998—1999, Eugene Language College, 2000.
( For anyone who has ever dreaded the blank page or strug...)
(With The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself, the creativity ...)
(Fiction. Introduction by Luisa Valenzuela. A young Americ...)