For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the light of kerosene lamps. They considered themselves part of the "back to the land" movement, but their choice to live off the grid was neither ...
Baron Wormser brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people's lives. In stories funny, tender, sad, and edgy, the narrators register how poetry has changed how they see themselves, how they live, and what they care about. As it bends genres by adapting aspects of fiction, biography, essay and monologue, "The Poetry Life" shows how ...
Baron Wormser, a master of the persona poem, is well known for his empathic exploration of possible lives. This fifth collection of poetry by this "fiction writer in a poet's body," includes an examination of his own life as well. "Mulroney & Others" provides glimpses of Wormser's childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, as well as accounts of ...
The most salient feature of Baron Wormser's work is its empathy. As he says in "Poems, " Your soul's a canyon. And their souls too. Wormser conflates his soul with the reader's soul and thereby erodes conventional distinctions between "us" and "them." But Wormser seems most likely to identify with us when we feel excluded, estranged, awkward, when ...
"[Baron] Wormser is a beautiful writer of the meditative-narrative poem in the compassionate and lucid style of Frost, Hayden Carruth, and Donald Hall. Like those writers, his poems dignify rural lives, but also explore the national soul with particularly American integrity and frankness. Conversational, civilizing, thoughtful, and often funny, ...
Poetry is part of the 7-12 English curriculum, but many students, and teachers too, are afraid of it. They think of poetry as esoteric, insular, even elitist. Baron Wormser and David Cappella prove otherwise.
Alice Fulton's praise of Wormser as an "unabashedly American poet" still rings true in this sixth collection, as does Sydney Lea's view that Wormser has the gift to "speak, not sloganistically but literally, for us all." What will surprise readers is that each poem accomplishes all of this in only fourteen lines-each loose sonnet simultaneously ...
This work lays down guidelines for the teaching of poetry. It covers topics such as rhythm, sound, syntax, grammar, word choice, metaphor, tone and lyric.
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