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VOICE LESSONS

On Becoming a (Woman) Writer

By Nancy Mairs

Beacon. 166 pp. $15

In this rich and wise collection of essays about becoming a writer (and a woman), Nancy Mairs describes a poetry workshop years ago under the pear trees outside an old farmhouse in New Hampshire where she and a group of other women reflected upon, discussed and celebrated one another's work. Of this group Mairs says, "They, and all the others like them whom I've never met, are the ones l write for."

Though "Voice Lessons" traces what could be an arid search for the nature of voice in writing, though it draws from literature, psychoanalysis and feminism, though it cites the influences of authors such ...

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