Introduces different kinds of poems, including headline, letter, recipe, list, and monologue, and provides exercises in writing poems based on both memory and imagination.
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Great activities for beginning, intermediate student poets.,
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This review is from: Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises 20 (Paperback)
Dunning and Stafford have created a series of engaging, easy to understand activities that will inspire students to write good to excellent poetry. Detailed instructions for writing assignments include: found poems, letter poems, pantoums, question-answer poems, and syllable count poems. Their writing style is breezy and conversational, the examples provided are of high quality yet not out of reach of the typical high school age student. It is an excellent book both for reluctant creative writers and the student who truly wants to be a poet.
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A Great Teaching Text,
By "gloselle" (Southgate, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises 20 (Paperback)
This is a cookbook-like approach to the teaching of poetic form. Each chapter presents a different form, a step-by-step guide to implementing a lesson with students (which is clear enough, I've found, to leave for a substitute lesson plan!), and selected examples of successful types. A great work for junior and senior high school general-level classes.
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The best how-to poetry book out there!,
By washbear (Apex, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises 20 (Paperback)
I hope this book isn't going out of print. It's a gift to be able to take lessons from a master poet like William Stafford, especially now that he has passed away. I don't know of any other poetry technique book that allows a student to really get their feet wet in language. This is a real treat in the exploration and discovery of language becoming poetry. You will get marvelous results working through these 20 exercises.
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