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You don’t need to find your words, you need to find your image. Images help us find our depth.
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You don’t need to find your words, you need to find your image. Images help us find our depth.

ByKim Hermanson

During the many years that I led creative writing workshops, I noticed something interesting about the thing invited deep writing. Some writing prompts–often involving words or newspaper headlines–kept people entrenched in analytical thinking and… their subsequent writing was heady and dry.  Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it was rarely deep or…

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Working the Soil: Social Change and Metaphor

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Don’t look for me in a human shape. I am inside your looking. No need for form with a love this strong. The lines above from Rumi can be interpreted in more than one way. As I teach courses on the psychology of metaphor, to my mind, Rumi’s lines refer to the power that metaphors…

Talented people achieve what others can’t, but genius achieves what others can’t imagine.

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17 potent, inspiring and relatively unknown books on the power of art, imagination, learning, and metaphor
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17 potent, inspiring and relatively unknown books on the power of art, imagination, learning, and metaphor

ByKim Hermanson

In alphabetical order, 17 potent, inspiring, and relatively unknown books on the power of art, imagination, learning, and metaphor. (These are books not commonly known, so that’s why some popular books on creativity and imagination aren’t listed.) Enjoy. THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics by Herbert Marcuse ALONE WITH THE ALONE: Creative…