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| Book Title: |
Poetry For Dummies |
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Jonathan Seagull |
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| Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” But no matter how you define it, poetry has exercised a hold upon the hearts and minds of people for more than five millennia. |
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Paperback: 332 pages |
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For Dummies (May 15, 2001) |
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| Book Title: |
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of |
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Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux |
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| "We wanted to create a book," say poets Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux in their introduction to The Poet's Companion, "that would focus on both craft and process." The book they have created is an impassioned exploration of poetry writing that addresses subject matter, craft, and the writing life. The reigning wisdom is that poets, like other creative writers, should write what they know. "The trick," say the authors, "is to find out what we know, challenge what we know, own what we know, and then give it away in language." Elsewhere they add that, while "as poets, we need to write from our experience ... that experience may be mental, emotional, and imaginative as well as physical." |
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Paperback: 284 pages |
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W. W. Norton & Company; 1st ed edition (September 1997) |
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| Book Title: |
Thematic Guide to American Poetry |
| Author: |
Allan Burns |
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| The latest addition to the Greenwood series of thematic guides to literature for students features 21 narrative essays on such broad themes in American poetry as "Art and Beauty," "Family Relations," "Loss," and "War." The essays are arranged alphabetically, and each begins with a theme-related quotation followed by a chronologically arranged discussion of how the theme is treated differently across individual poems. On average, chapters are 12 pages long and discuss 12 individual poems. Each chapter concludes with a list of anthologies in which each poem appears (abbreviations correspond closely with Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies). |
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Hardcover: 328 pages |
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Greenwood Press (August 30, 2002) |
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| Book Title: |
Writing Poetry: A Practical Guide |
| Author: |
Julia Casterton |
| Book Description: |
| None Available. |
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Paperback: 128 pages |
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Crowood Press, Limited, The (April 1, 2005) |
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| Book Title: |
Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teacher |
| Author: |
Sue Dymoke |
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| Thoroughly researched and shows how attitudes towards teaching of poetry and indeed the place of poetry on the syllabus, has changed with political fashion over the years, but more importantly, Sue Dymoke shows how a handful of contemporary poets go about drafting their work and sees this process as an essential tool in the classroom, advocating that students should keep drafting notebooks, just like real writers. |
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Paperback: 224 pages |
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Paul Chapman Educational Publishing (April 14, 2003 |
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| Book Title: |
Creating Poetry |
| Author: |
John Drury |
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| Nuts-and-bolts instruction helps budding poets become comfortable using poetry terms, forms and different styles *Includes a reading list, basic submission information and study plans
Designed to encourage budding poets to explore language, subject matter, free and measured verse, imagery, metaphor, and more—Creating Poetry is the must-have resource for anyone who wants to write or teach poetry. Readers will find in-depth instruction, definitions of poetry terms and examples, challenging exercises and more. |
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| Publication Type : |
Paperback: 211 pages |
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Writers Digest Books (July 29, 2006) |
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| Book Title: |
How to Publish Your Poetry...Guide to Finding the |
| Author: |
Helene Ciaravino |
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| If how-to books are supposed to be opinionated, informative and sophisticated, this guide from Ciaravino (How to Pray: A Practical Guide to Prayer) is less a beginning poet's guide than a gentle and repetitive initiation for the completely cluelessAbut, blessedly, they're out there. The target audience of 20,000 (the book's first printing) seems to be those who come to poetry through self-help programs or sui generis verbal implosions, or who are otherwise completely out of the loop of periodicals, presses and academic programs indeed of poetry of any sort: "This poet, whose full name is Thomas Stearns Eliot, has influenced history with his work." |
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Paperback: 181 pages |
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Square One Publishers (January 2001) |
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| Book Title: |
It Could Be Verse: Anybody's Guide to Poetry |
| Author: |
John Timpane |
| Book Description: |
| None Available. |
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Paperback: 186 pages |
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Publisher: Ten Speed Press (October 1995) |
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| Book Title: |
Poetry for a Lifetime… |
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Samuel Norfleet Etheredge (Editor), Samuel Norfleet Etheredge |
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| Highly recommended anthology Poetry For A Lifetime is an outstanding anthology of more than 340 well-known and unforgettable poems that everyone should know as part of our common literary heritage. An outstanding addition to any personal, school, or community library collection, Poetry For A Lifetime is a superb introduction to the wondrous world of poetry and presents simply wonderful reading for all ages. It is organized by themes, from "Nursery", "Youth and Home", through "Good Advice and Inspiration", and ending with "Looking Back". Poetry For A Lifetime is a superb and exhaustive compendium of old favorites and new treasures whose wide spectrum includes The Raven; The Cremation of Sam McGee; The Calf Path; O Captain! My Captain!; Casey at the Bat; The Bridge Builder; If; Paul Revere's Ride; Annabel Lee; and Old Ironsides. |
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| Publication Type : |
Hardcover: 488 pages |
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Publisher: MiraVista Press (March 28, 1999) |
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| Book Title: |
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children |
| Author: |
Kenneth Koch, Ron Padgett |
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| Perhaps the best book I have read portraying the joy and excitement young people experience when writing in a happy place where people care about their works...The ideas Koch uses are good. I've tried them with my writing classes, and they work." Allen Wiggins, Cleveland Plain Dealer "I wish every grade school teacher would run out and read Kenneth Koch's Wishes, Lies, and Dreams. If many of them took Koch's advice seriously we would have at the very least a poetry revolution, not to mention the possibility that a lot of kids would start having a good time in school. |
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| Publication Type : |
Paperback: 336 pages |
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Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 1, 2000) |
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