Be a PoetOriginally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... rain water beside the white chickens It doesn't seem to say very much , does it ? In fact , one's reaction is likely to be , " So what else is new ? ” Nor does writing it out as a single stanza offer much of an improvement : so much ...
... rain water beside the white chickens That seems better , but there's an awkward split between the barrow and the chickens . So how about this instead : so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white ...
Nancy Bogen. 2 . beside the white chickens SO much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens 3 . so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens Dizzying ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Copyright | |
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