Poetry Home Repair Manual Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

Name: Poetry Home Repair Manual Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
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ISBN: 9780803259782

ISBN-10: 0803259786

ISBN-13: 9780803259782

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ted Kooser

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Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, 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 use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry's ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 170
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments


About This Book



A Poet's Job Description



Writing for Others



First Impressions



Don't Worry About the Rules



Rhyming, Ham Cubes, Prose Poems



Writing About Feelings



Can you Read Your Poem Through Your Poem?



Writing from Memory



Working with Detail



Controlling Effects



Fine Tuning Metaphors and Similes



Relax and Wait


Source References and Acknowledgments


Index