The poetry home repair manual : practical advice for beginning poets /
"Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend - a friend who is willing to share everything he's learned about the art he's spent a lifetime learning to...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 through careful choices
- Fine-tuning metaphors and similes
- Relax and wait.