About this title: 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, this book is used in high schools, colleges, universities, and writing workshops across the country.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Date Published: 1995-06
ISBN-13:9780884481492ISBN:0884481492
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Tilbury House Pub
Date Published: 1995-06-01
ISBN-13:9780884481492ISBN:0884481492
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780884481492ISBN:0884481492
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Binding: Softcover; Seventh Printing
Publisher: Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780884481492ISBN:0884481492
Description: VG/NONE. 0884481492. Minor general surfacewear, several pages' upper edge with short tear due to cutting glitch.; The Poet's Portable Workshop; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 274 pages; Literary how-to, red/orange black, fictcat tem. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TILBURY HOUSE PUBL
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780884481492ISBN:0884481492
Description: New. 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 me... read more
"I have chosen this book for a poetry writing course I will teach next month. I've read it before and used several of the exercises within it to pen my own poems. Steve Kowit uses excellent and insightful poetic examples and his technique comments are down-to-earth and accessible. He has great insight on various elements of the poetry writing process, as demonstrated in chapters like "The Art of Revision" and "Lonely as a Leftover Thumb: Figure and Image" and "Speeding Home in Reverse: The Controlling Metaphor." I would heartily recommend this book to other poets, other teachers, and even to people who want insight into how poets put poems together-- from structure to the basic mechanics of poetic language. Other than The Poet's Companion and Writing Down the Bones (two of my absolute favorites) it is near the top of my writing-books shelf (and I own dozens of writing books)."
"Though I felt initially enthusiastic about this text and assigned it in a few sections of my creative writing classes, I came to grow disenchanted, specifically with the poems provided as examples: they seemed increasingly two-dimensional and were easily replaced by *better* poems. So I ended up supplementing the assignments with extra poems. Which led me to look elsewhere for a better text. Which of course is an endless process for many of us.
Reader-friendly, yes. Well-organized, yes. Good for a beginning poetry workshop or for young writers (not to be confused with young people) in need of practicing their craft, yes, of course. But I can't recommend it highly for anyone past that stage."
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