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Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out

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I really enjoyed the details in this book about from where poetry stems. I loved the idea of just watching the wolrd around you and seeing if a poem somes to you. It does! My only concern is the book uses language that would be too difficult for the average 5th-6th grader to understand. I like that poems from kids are included, but this book seems more appropriate for a teacher to reach and intergrate into his/her curriculum.

I bought this for my 9 yr old daughter who loves writing poetry...Weird I know, but she has seemed to enjoy reading this to get ideas and proper forms...

Hi, I really enjoyed reading Ralph Fletcher's book "Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the inside out." He gives lots of good examples. He has interviews with two other poets in the book for ideas on poetry. He makes poetry interesting and fun to learn! I also enjoyed his poetry!

As usual, Ralph Fletcher makes you itch to put pencil to paper and write, write, write.

What I like about this book is that it's aimed at middle-school students who want to write poetry, and it encourages them through examples and advice. The poems, both the good ones and the bad ones, are instructive of the subject being discussed. They're short, they're current.

What I don't like about this book is its rapidity: everything that's said seems to be said very quickly, then we're off to another subject. Also, I think the chapters are in no logical order, nor does the book progress logically from one aspect of poetry to another. This book could have been stronger.

I am sure this book was written to be given to individual students. It is very simply written and would be a good resource for that use. It does not seem to be a good teaching resource though.

If you feel like you are a real poet within, this book will help you get it out. One word of caution, everyone thinks he or she is a poet. Yes, everyone is a bad poet and every once in a great while a great poet will emerge.

Here's what I didn't like: the personal approach to poetry writting, using as examples personal anecdotes at the beginning of some chapters; the use of bad poems written by students instead of poems written by great poets; the superficial approach to poetry writting.
This is a book suitable for the very beginners. It wont satisfy poetry readers as well as poets.
Sorry... that's what I think!