In the Palm of Your Hand The Poet's Portable Workshop

Name: In the Palm of Your Hand The Poet's Portable Workshop
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ISBN: 9780884481492

ISBN-10: 0884481492

ISBN-13: 9780884481492

Edition: N/A

Authors: Steve Kowit

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Description:

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.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword


A Few Words before Getting Started



How to Begin



I Couldn't Stop Watching



Little Poems in Prose



Shards of Memory: Playing With Time



Awful Poems



The Art of Revision



After-Glow: The Interior Music



Lonely as a Leftover Thumb: Figure and Image



Speeding Home in Reverse: The Controlling Metaphor



Myth, Legend, and Pop Icon



Family Secrets: The Poem as Photograph



Cut-Ups, Cross-Outs, and Ransom Notes



The House of Language



Flying Into Oneself: Dream Work and the Magical Image



Deranging the Senses: Automatic Writing And Ecstatic Poetics



Coils of Hardened Copper: The Modernist Revolution



Playing With Meter: The Measure of a Poem



A Lighthearted Look at Formal Structure: Limericks and Double Dactyls



More Pleasures of Form and Rhyme: Sonnets and Villanelles



A Cribsheet of English Meters



Line Breaks



The Body Politic



As Soon as These Blossoms Open: The Poetry of Love and Longing



Bodies Flaring in the Moonlight: The Poetry of Desire



Flower Burning in the Day: Poems of Loss



Into the Dazzling Void: Writing About the Natural World



Poetry and the Awakened Life



The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Poetry Workshops



Getting Your Poems into the World



Resources


Acknowledgements


Index