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An illuminating and invaluable guide for beginners wary of modern poetry, as well as for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft and write poems that expand their technical skills, excite their imaginations, and engage their deepest memories and concerns. Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing—and reading—contemporary poetry.
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Overview

An illuminating and invaluable guide for beginners wary of modern poetry, as well as for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft and write poems that expand their technical skills, excite their imaginations, and engage their deepest memories and concerns. Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing—and reading—contemporary poetry.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780884481492
  • Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
  • Publication date: 6/28/2003
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 135,027
  • Age range: 14 - 17 Years
  • Product dimensions: 6.11 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
A Few Words before Getting Started
1 How to Begin 1
2 I Couldn't Stop Watching 8
3 Little Poems in Prose 21
4 Shards of Memory: Playing With Time 30
5 Awful Poems 38
6 The Art of Revision 48
7 After-Glow: The Interior Music 56
8 Lonely as a Leftover Thumb: Figure and Image 64
9 Speeding Home in Reverse: The Controlling Metaphor 79
10 Myth, Legend, and Pop Icon 88
11 Family Secrets: The Poem as Photograph 94
12 Cut-Ups, Cross-Outs, and Ransom Notes 102
13 The House of Language 111
14 Flying Into Oneself: Dream Work and the Magical Image 121
15 Deranging the Senses: Automatic Writing And Ecstatic Poetics 129
16 Coils of Hardened Copper: The Modernist Revolution 137
17 Playing With Meter: The Measure of a Poem 146
18 A Lighthearted Look at Formal Structure: Limericks and Double Dactyls 154
19 More Pleasures of Form and Rhyme: Sonnets and Villanelles 159
20 A Cribsheet of English Meters 165
21 Line Breaks 169
22 The Body Politic 182
23 As Soon as These Blossoms Open: The Poetry of Love and Longing 194
24 Bodies Flaring in the Moonlight: The Poetry of Desire 206
25 Flower Burning in the Day: Poems of Loss 215
26 Into the Dazzling Void: Writing About the Natural World 225
27 Poetry and the Awakened Life 234
28 The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Poetry Workshops 246
29 Getting Your Poems into the World 252
30 Resources 259
Acknowledgements 264
Index 270

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 17, 2003

    Great for the Student too...

    I must say that as a college student that has now taken the writing class in which this is one of two of my text books, this book is the best 15 bucks I ever spent on a text book!! This book is always informative, with a little history to go with the nuts and bolts. Loads of examples fill the chapters to help you understand from the masters at our craft. These are all important, as Kowit takes us through the realm of poetry. As a begginers guide, I would recomend it as well as a text book for college and H.S. teachers alike. Plus, its just plain easy to read. When I start teacing soon, I will defnitly use this as a required text, and teach out of it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2000

    A 'Textbook' the Way Textbooks SHOULD Be Written!

    In this beautifully crafted work, Steve Kowit takes ANYONE interested in writing poetry through a guided tour of wonderful examples and inspirations. His exercises will have your creative juices virtually erupting and you will find yourself truly understanding the concept of 'looking at the world with a poets eye (and listening and feeling and tasting, too). He follows his own advise and doesn't just 'tell,' he 'shows.' If you can't be lucky enough to attend one of his classes or workshops in person, he has given you one here 'In the Palm of Your Hand.' This should be on the bookshelf of every poetry teacher in the country and everyone else who wants to discover the joys (and pains!) of poetry writing.

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