By Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux
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From the nuts and bolts of craft to the assets of idea, this booklet is for somebody who desires to write poetry-and do it well.
In this fortuitous collaboration, lively poets, themselves academics of poetry, supply assistance to aspiring newbies and those that have already released. short essays at the parts of poetry, procedure, and instructed topics for writing are each one by way of exact writing workouts.
"Compare a precise kin photo with person who used to be by no means taken, yet might have been.
The ups and downs of the writing life—including the inevitable visitations of self-doubt and writer's block—are the following, in addition to pointers on getting released. a different part includes twenty-minute writing workouts, and invaluable appendixes hide additional analyzing and advertising recommendation. by yourself, this e-book might be your "teacher," whereas teams, in or out of the study room, can make the most of sharing weekly assignments.
a variety of examples of up to date poetry, selected for relevance and freshness, illustrate salient issues and stimulate the mind's eye. through calling all alone adventure and targeting residing American writers for his or her versions, the authors introduce you to poetry because it is correct now.
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They may be very good, by current standards —many of them find their way into respected literary journals. But true poems, and poets, are difficult to come by. " What matters in your work, ultimately, is not how much it pleases an editor, but whether it has integrity—integrity of vision as much as language. 62 THE POETS IDEAS FOR COMPANION WRITING 1. As a warmup, write something that you would never show to anyone, that you are afraid even to put down on the page. Get it out, as much of it as possible, in as much shameful or horrifying detail as you can manage.
The traditional imagery for good and evil is light and dark, white and black. Brainstorm a list of images called up by the two opposites, light/white and black/dark. Then write a poem that inverts and reverses those traditional associations. That is, what is beautiful, fertile, inspiring in the dark, in night, in deep caves? What's awful or terrifying in daylight? Witnessing What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors? —Bertolt Brecht, "To Those Born Later" The German poet and playwright wrote those lines in the thirties, but what he called the "dark times" are far from over.
Advertising exploits language to convince us we are buying not only a product but a bit of class, or sexiness, or sophistication. Politicians hire speechwriters to play on our sense of patriotism, our fears, our compassion for others. Read George Orwell's famous essay "Politics and the English Lan- Witnessing 65 guage," or his classic novel, 1984. Political doublespeak is everywhere. In a war, a phrase like "collateral damage" may be used to refer to civilian casualties. But even the words "civilian casualties" create a screen beyond which it's hard to see real human suffering.