Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels therefrom through the written word.
Poemcrazy is the poetic analog to Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird or Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, two classic works on how to forget that you "can't write" and just start the pen moving. Susan Wooldridge is a swimming instructor in the wide ocean of language, encouraging us to move ever farther from the shore, dive deep, and dance on the waves.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Crazy about Poemcrazy:
I am completely crazy about this book and I don't normally read poetry books or books about writing poetry. But as a HS librarian I was trying to find something to help my English teachers who struggle every year to come up with lesson ideas for their poetry units. I struck gold with this book. I actually took six of Wooldridge's ideas and created lesson plans from them which I share with the teachers. For example, I cut up an old wildflower book, laminated the pictures, so that teachers could do an... more info
Not for the beginner:
This book is not a how to write a poem book. It is how to live your life so that maybe you can write a poem in 6 to 8 years.
One of my favorites!:
Get it! I dare you! This book is awesome! I learn something new every time I pick it up. I love the freedom it promotes in creativity. Buy it!
Discover the poet within:
Over the last few years I've begun to explore my own talent for poetry, and among the books I've read to help me is this one. I've yet to try the exercises, but just reading the book gives me some food for thought. Lots of ideas and techniques to try as the spirit moves you.
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