The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales
10 best books like The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Jeanne Marie Beaumont): Invisible Cities, The Snow Child, The Poetry of Robert Frost, So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018, Lolly Willowes, Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew, The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation), The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156453800 |
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So...
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
The Poetry of Robert Frost
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0805005013 |
The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, scrupulously...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 1556595387 |
"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." --Salon
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." --Margaret Atwood
"There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| ISBN | 0940322161 |
This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.
I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0933377460 |
I'm pretty skeptical of books on writing, if only because everyone seems to have written one. And so many of them come at you with flashy promises: "Sell Your Novel In Thirty Days!"
Prior to having read LeGuin's "Steering the Craft," I relied on three books, more or less:
1. Strunk and...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 1402202466 |
The poetry on the page wasn't very good. A DVD goes along with it. I enjoyed that more, which is the point of spoken word poetry.
Here is one example:
"The Foxhole Manifesto"
by Jeffrey McDaniel
There are no atheists in foxholes.
--old Christian proverb
The...
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679762221 |
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0374524874 |
In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers...
| Author | Roy Peter Clark |
| ISBN | 0316126713 |
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.
In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the...
| Author | Pat Mora |
| ISBN | 0375843752 |
Beloved children's book author and speaker Pat Mora has written an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart’s desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves...
Once Upon a Time (She Said)
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1886778612 |
Remember The Blue Fairy Book? The Yellow Fairy Book and all the other primary colored editions? Or their lesser-known cousins Pink, Grey and Crimson Fairy Books? I checked out every one I could find at the local library, and spent endless hours reading about talking beasts, seventh sons and bloody appendages...
The Writing Workshop Note Book: Notes on Creating and Workshopping
| Author | Alan Ziegler |
| ISBN | 1933368705 |
If you've never been in a writing workshop before, this book will help you know what to expect and how to get the most out of the experience. If you've already figured out the workshop gig, you'll know a lot of this stuff already. (It gave me plenty of flashbacks to my college days.) Similarly, his advice...
Leap Write In!: Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind
| Author | Karen Benke |
| ISBN | 1611800153 |
Invite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you’ll be inspired to explore all...
