The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms
10 best books like The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Ron Padgett): In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop, The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach, The Art of the Poetic Line, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, Contemporary American Poetry
| Author | Steve Kowit |
| ISBN | 0884481492 |
Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.
It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted...
Part of me wants to hate on writing-by-formula, but I like this book a lot and was interested in a lot of the exercises. It's a good read on its own, even if you don't intend to use any of the prompts. After each prompt, the author explains why s/he finds these particular constraints valuable. I liked Agha...
| Author | James Longenbach |
| ISBN | 1555974953 |
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...
| Author | Ted Kooser |
| ISBN | 0803259786 |
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...
| Author | Mark Strand |
| ISBN | 0393321789 |
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form
Explaining beauty is hard work. But distinguished poets Mark Strand and Eavan Boland have produced a clear, super-helpful book that unravels part of the mystery of great poems through an engaging exploration of poetic structure....
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0393334163 |
"The creative process is just that," maintains Kim Addonizio. "Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." A widely acclaimed poet and finalist for the National Book Award, Addonizio meditates on her own process as she encourages writers to explore both their personal and political worlds,...
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| ISBN | 0075536064 |
Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Revised edition (January 1, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0075536064
ISBN-13: 978-0075536062
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.3 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping...
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance," wrote Alexander Pope. "The dance," in the case of Oliver's brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in...
| Author | Tony Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1555974554 |
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me
Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless...
| Author | A. Poulin Jr. |
| ISBN | 0395745322 |
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
| Author | Michelle Boisseau |
| ISBN | 0321094239 |
This poetry text offers comprehensive coverage of the creative process and the technical aspects of writing poetry. Filled with practical advice for the beginning and more advanced poet, this text enlivens students' understanding of poetry, illustrates poetic principles, and serves as a reliable...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0060925841 |
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. These poems reflect the effects of such experience:...
| Author | Alex Preminger |
| ISBN | 0691021236 |
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
| Author | Rae Armantrout |
| ISBN | 0819568201 |
In her latest collection, Rae Armantrout considers the shaping effects of language in the context of new and frightening global realities. Attempting to imagine the unimaginable and see the unseen, Armantrout evokes a "next life" beyond the current, and too often degraded, one. From the new physics...
| Author | Lewis Turco |
| ISBN | 0874513812 |
The New Book of Forms contains over three hundred verse forms, each succinctly described in prose and, where necessary, with a schematic diagram. Many entries are followed by examples drawn from modern English poems that use the form and by references to well-known poems written in it. Each entry ends...
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0380797038 |
A practical guide to demystify the process of writing poetry, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.
Poetry matters. At the most important moments, when everyone else is silent, poetry rises to speak.
This book is full of practical...
| Author | C.D. Wright |
| ISBN | 1556592167 |
C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time “to cool” after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.
Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected...
| Author | Brian Kiteley |
| ISBN | 1582975639 |
Realize All That Is Possible in Your Fiction
Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning—be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself...
| Author | William J. Higginson |
| ISBN | 4770014309 |
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 0812972961 |
Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary...
| Author | Kenneth Koch |
| ISBN | 0060955090 |
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry
When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout...
| Author | Denise Duhamel |
| ISBN | 0914061615 |
I'd buy this book just for the cover, but the poems are even twice as wonderful. Denise Duhamel has apparently obsessed for months about the Barbie doll phenomenon: all the poems have to do with the "what if " of Barbie attempting to fit into the real world. For example, what if Barbie were codependent?...
The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
| Author | Karen Elizabeth Gordon |
| ISBN | 0395689902 |
"What on earth does lagniappe mean? A sluggard who lies around till noon? A she-wolf of Anapurna? A car that demands heavy pampering?" In fact, none of the above. But one can find this Creole French word delectably defined in THE DISHEVELED DICTIONARY, which does for vocabulary what Gordon's cult classic...
| Author | Lisa Robertson |
| ISBN | 0009739742 |
The Men is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read Lisa Robertson. As a poet Robertson has received unrivaled praise for her uncompromising intelligence and style. The Men will not only compliment her previous work, but will add a new layer as a far more personal and lyrical book...
