| Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem is grounded in the belief that the best way to learn to write poetry - and improve one's writing in general - is through practice. The book's unique approach - teaching the elements of poetry through various poetic forms - encourages students to learn from existing models and to break free from pre-established constraints. In thirteen chapters centered on the sonnet, the haiku, and other traditional and not-so-traditional forms, the author demonstrates through numerous innovative exercises the many ways in which beginning poets can enrich their writing by studying and practicing poetic form. |
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By John N. Thornburg "Professor English / Creati... (San Jacinto College, Pasadena / Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem: A Guide to Writing Poetry (Paperback)
This textbook could be used by college creative writing students just beginning the study of writing poetry as well as advanced students, honing voice, craft, and expressive forms of poetry. Wendy Bishop writes a friendly, well-organized textbook that makes learning sophisticated poetic techniques enjoyable. This trade paperback is a fairly big book 9.09 x 6.28 x 0.83, with 437 pages, presenting a wealth of material in an interesting and accessible manner. Chapters are organized by "forms," broadly conceived as patterns of sound, rhythm, and meaning. Such forms include free verse, metered lines, rhymed and unrhymed couplets, elegies and aubades, ghazals and pantoums, haiku and haiku-like sequences, listing and repetitions, odes and praise songs, prose poems, quatrains, sestinas, sonnets, tercets, terza rima, triplets, and villanelles. Each chapter begins with a clear discussion of professional examples of the form. Next model poems are considered to move from "Reading into Writing." Then an extensive and expansive series of "Invention Exercises" appear, containing drafts of poems by students based on the exercises with additional professional examples. I give my highest recommendation to this text for students of poetry.
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This is an excellent idea book for the writer who is having difficulty with productivity or inspiration. The different ways to inspire yourself or find a poem will have you writing. An excellent resource book for the writing class. I refer to it for unique or novel ways of looking at the world.
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an indispensable book for writers and readers of poetry,
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This book is a must for anyone interested in poetry, and in particular for anyone who thinks that formal poetry is old-fashioned, reactionary, and uninteresting. The chapters allow you to read, write and think about the poetic forms and issues under discussion. The exercises are wonderful and the explanatory prose lovely and intelligent.
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