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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... poem is as unique to its poet as its content . True , you may at times find a poem by one person that stylistically resembles that by another , just as in your lifetime you may encounter people who look and / or think alike . It follows ...
... poem is done . And here are their answers . Ruth Fainlight wrote : There's no pattern for the amount of revision a poem might have . Sometimes - though rarely - - after a few drafts a poem seems as finished as it will be . But usually ...
... poems that can be read in a single sitting . For starters , you can write longer poems ; in fact , what's to prevent you from writing a series of longer poems that can be brought together in a book or indeed a book - length poem ? Your ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Copyright | |
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