"*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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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
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.
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... more info
The Music of Words:
"The first line of any poem is a kind of door, an entrance into the rooms of the stanzas, an opening. There are many kinds of doors, some plain, some ornate..." ~John Drury Creating Poetry is not a book, it is a muse disguised as pages of paper within a cover! I cannot express my appreciation enough for this beautiful gift. John Drury's wisdom and attention to detail is inspiring and the warmth with which he writes inspires you to write poem after poem. You can literally read this book and compose... more info
An excellent comprehensive guide to poetry writing!:
There are a few books in my personal library which I have acquired without really knowing the exact reasons for my ultimate decisions at the point of purchase. It could be the spur of the moment. Or something just grabs me. I really don't know. This is one particular book (in fact, the only one of its genre, which I had bought) that fell under those impulses. But there is something I am very sure of & that is, I am often fascinated by people who write literature, plays & poems, as well as... more info
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