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Creating Poetry
Binding: Paperback
Author: John Drury
Manufacturer: Writers Digest Books
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Average Rating: 5.0
Total Customer Reviews: 10
List Price: $14.99
Our Price: $10.19
Sales Rank: 102802
Product Description
"*Nuts-and-bolts instruction helps budding poets become comfortable using poetry terms, forms and different styles *Includes a reading list, basic submission information and study plans Designed to encourage budding poets to explore language, subject matter, free and measured verse, imagery, metaphor, and more—Creating Poetry is the must-have resource for anyone who wants to write or teach poetry. Readers will find in-depth instruction, definitions of poetry terms and examples, challenging exercises and more."
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Product Review Summary: This is a great book! I took a chance buying this, thinking that it might be boring or even unreadable. But the risk paid off. It is well organized and extremely informative. If you just read poetry you will get alot out of this. It fills me with ideas and inspiration for creating my own poems.
Product Review Summary: Creative juices flows.... Twelve chapters overflowing with examples, exercises and prompts - all practical tools that you can use in poetry writing. Through John Drury's book, you can actually learn to write poetry. However, to write a poetry, one need to do a lot of reading. Nothing ever can be jotted down in verses unless you have the creative juices flowing within you - Creating poetry offers insightful, thoughtful rhyme and reason. The book motivates you and it's only being confident to shrugg off the 'writer's block' with your inability to do nothing on the page. As the Author says, "The first line of any poem is the kind of door, an entrance into the rooms of stanzas, an opening" - And the flow of writing comes natural with the first lines to what's next.
The book elaborates following sections:
Preparing
Language
Sight
Sound
Movement
Shaping
Patterns & Traditions
voice
Sources of Inspiration
Things to write about
Other Arts, other Influences
Finishing
How to write a poetry and the answer comes quite natural - Grab a copy of this book. It is here to develop your poetric sensitivity with rhythmic qualities that make poems sing, shout, march, whisper or just let it roll....Recommended for all who love Poetry. Best Pick.
Product Review Summary: just what I needed!! This book explained exactly what I neded to know without boring me to tears or using snobby language or dull examples. Simple concise explanations that inspired me to try creating my own poetry!
Product Review Summary: Creating Poetry. This book is more suited for one who has started writng poetry. There are numerous exercises which may discourage the novice.
At the same time it covers well all aspects of poetry. On reflection my original judgement may have been somewhat hasty.
Product Review Summary: The Best Introduction To Poetry Since Introduction To Poetry A fun and easy-to-read introduction to poetry for anybody. A must for a beginning poet. There is something to chuckle about on every page, I wrote a poem about one:
Assignment No. 12
Read something that seems impossibly difficult.
John Drury, you say things so impossibly easy,
You may as well be a Zen teacher.
Do you care to explain what you meant,
Or shall I tie you to a chair and torture you
To get a confession out of you?
Wait, Billy Collins told us to waterski
And wave at your name on the shore.
I know it was an assignment, not a poem.
But you wrote it so poetically,
I won't bring out a hose to beat you
To find out what you really meant.
Anyway, that's why I love to write poems:
I can leave a line hanging in the air,
Without explaining why or what it means,
For readers to imagine and discover.
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