Lewis Hyde's interests center on the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, is an inquiry into the situation of creative artists in a commercial society. Trickster Makes This World (1998) is a portrait of the kind of disruptive imagination needed to keep any culture flexible and alive.
Hyde has also published a book of poems, This Error is the Sign of Love, and edited a number of volumes, including The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, a book of responses to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and selected poems of the Nobel Prize-winning Spaniard, Vicente Aleixandre.
Hyde most recently published Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership, a book about "cultural commons," that vast, unowned store of ideas, inventions and art that we have inherited from the past and continue to create »Æ¹Ï¾«Æ·present.
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1972 — Master of Arts from University of Iowa
1967 — Bachelor of Arts from Univ Minnesota Minneapolis*