The Poet S Companion A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

Author : Kim Addonizio,Dorianne Laux
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393340884

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The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio,Dorianne Laux Pdf

From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well. The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published and writing in the electronic age. On your own, this book can be your "teacher," while groups, in or out of the classroom, can profit from sharing weekly assignments.

Author : Kim Addonizio,Dorianne Laux
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0393316548

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The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio,Dorianne Laux Pdf

Two accomplished poets and teachers offer a poetry primer that includes short essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and possible subjects for writing, along with writing exercises, tips on getting published, and examples of contemporary poetry.

Author : Dorianne Laux
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781938160370

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What We Carry by Dorianne Laux Pdf

Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.

Author : Sandford Lyne
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781402254208

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Writing Poetry from the Inside Out by Sandford Lyne Pdf

In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding that poetry is an art form open to everyone. We all can-and should-write poetry. In this enchanting and inspiring volume, Lyne will introduce you to the pleasures and surprises of writing poetry, and his methods and insights will help you tap into your own unique voice and perspective to compose poems of your own in as little as a few minutes. Whether you are an experienced writer looking for new techniques and sources of inspiration or a novice poet who has never written a poem in your life, Writing Poetry from the Inside Out will help you to craft the poems you've always longed to write.

Author : Maria M. Gillan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550717480

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Writing Poetry to Save Your Life by Maria M. Gillan Pdf

Author : Stephen Dobyns
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230118782

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Next Word, Better Word by Stephen Dobyns Pdf

This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience to bear on issues such as subject matter, the mechanics of poetry, and the revision process, Dobyns explores the complex relationship between writers and their work. From Philip Larkin to Pablo Neruda to William Butler Yeats, every chapter reveals useful lessons in these renowned poets' work. Both enlightening and encouraging, Next Word, Better Word demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the creative process.

Author : Stephen Fry
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781407088433

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The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry Pdf

If you can speak and read English, you can write poetry. The trick is knowing where to start. Stephen Fry, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms. Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so. Brimful of enjoyable exercises, witty insights and simple step-by-step advice, The Ode Less Travelled guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts.

Author : Susan G. Wooldridge
Publisher : Crown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307559128

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Poemcrazy by Susan G. Wooldridge Pdf

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

Author : Kim Addonizio
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393249170

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Mortal Trash: Poems by Kim Addonizio Pdf

“Kim Addonizio’s voice lifts from the page, alive and biting—unleashing wit with a ruthless observation.”—San Francisco Book Review Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. From “Scrapbook”: We believe in the one-ton rose and the displaced toilet equally. Our blues assume you understand not much, and try to be alive, just as we do, and that it may be helpful to hold the hand of someone as lost as you.

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0803259786

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The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser Pdf

Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.

Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780143106432

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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-century American Poetry by Rita Dove Pdf

An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0156724006

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A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver Pdf

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.

Author : Richard Hugo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393077445

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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo Pdf

"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."—James Dickey Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems." Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's sayd, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.

Author : Adam Sol
Publisher : Misfit Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1770414568

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How a Poem Moves by Adam Sol Pdf

How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walk readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and delivers essays that demonstrate poetry's range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions.

Author : Diane Lockward
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781947896086

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The Practicing Poet by Diane Lockward Pdf