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The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
Binding: Paperback
Author: Ted Kooser
Format: Bargain Price
Manufacturer: Bison Books
Average Rating: 4.5
Total Customer Reviews: 36
List Price: $13.95
Sales Rank: 545989
Product Description
Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts.  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 execute so well.
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Product Review Summary: The Poetry Home Repair Manual I'm so glad I found this book! I use it every time I'm struggling with a poem (which is quite often). Ted Kooser's advice is invaluable.
Product Review Summary: If you only want one book on writing poetry this is it! Kooser's book is a no-nonsense guide to all you wanted to know about writing poems. He is an expert and illustrates his advice with many poems including some of his own. The other book that you might find useful would be
The Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett
Product Review Summary: ?????? Oh please. This is poetry for dummies, and it has that patronizing tone of grandfather doling out sage advice to the little ones gathered around his feet. Okay, I suppose, in its own way, but for a former poet laureate and pulitzer winner, I'm surely entitled to read something that speaks, from time to time, in a serious and incisive way about this difficult art.
Product Review Summary: Practical, warm and witty Kooser's book is aimed at the beginning poet, but anyone could pick up useful ideas about revision, metaphor and simile, and imagining an audience. Kooser's writing is warm and often funny, and his advice is realistic and practical. This is not a book to read if you're looking for a quick way to become a famous poet. But if you're interested in putting in the necessary hours (and hours and hours and hours) needed to turn out respectable writing, Kooser can help you use your time more productively and enjoyably.
Recommended.
Product Review Summary: Excellent refresher Whether you are an avid reader of poetry looking to explore your gift, or are already a budding poet, Kooser provides much good and useful advice. Do not think that this is a kit of parts that you'll assemble and create great poetry. Instead, _The_Poetry_Home_Repair_Manual_ seeks to teach you to become a poet. You will learn how to look at the world and _see_ it. You will learn how to effectively assemble and present your experiences and thoughts, and then go back and revise them.
What surprised me was that he even discusses getting published and what kinds of journals, periodicals, etc, you might consider. Throughout, you are reminded that you should write poetry not for notoriety, nor for money, nor for any other reason than to please yourself and fulfill an inner desire to express your soul. If you seek to be a poet for any other reason, you will be disappointed.
Myself, being a poet in the nebulous space between novice and intermediate, I found this book to be both an excellent reminder and the source of new visions. If you have not read any of Ted Kooser's poetry, I exhort you to find the time to do so (I am particularly fond of _Delights_and_Shadows_). There are many mediocre and bad modern poets; but Kooser is a true genius.
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