Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises

Dunning, Stephen; Stafford, William

ISBN 10: 0814118488 / ISBN 13: 9780814118481

Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 1992

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Award-winning poets Stephen Dunning an William Stafford offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets. The book is divided into twenty sections, each covering a different kind of phase of poetry writing. Working through this sequence of writing assignments, would-be-poets are guided toward full participation in and appreciation of the power of poetry. The first writing exercises focus on poems that are made from the plain language found in everyday writing-headline and found poems, letter poems, acrostics, and recipe poems. As they gain confidence with these introductory activities, students move on to writing form (syllable-count) poems, imitation poems, and finally, original confession and monologue poems. Interspersed are exercises for dream-writing and memory-mapping. The authors provide thorough and witty explanation of each exercise, numerous examples of poems drawn from the work of both students and professional poets, and enlightening "Interludes," which discuss the art and philosophy of poetry. Dunning and Stafford's breezy and humorous style will appeal to experienced and novice poets of all ages.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Stephen Dunning taught high school English in St. Paul, Los Alamos, and Tallahassee before teaching English education at Duke, Northwest­ern, and The University of Michigan. His earliest publications were articles, texts, and (as co-editor with Lueders and Smith) such anthologies as "Reflection On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle..." In 1975, the year he served as President of NCTE, he began writing poetry and, in 1984, fiction. His poems are gathered in six chapbooks-one, Running With Bill (1985), is dedicated to Stafford. His collection of short fiction is To The Beautiful Women (1990). Recognitions include winning the "Tamarack Award," the "World's Best Short Short Story" contest, the "James B. Hall Award for Short Fiction," two creative artist grants, and five PEN Syndi­cated Fiction awards.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing ...
Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very_good