Writing Poetry

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Summary: Bible for Aspiring Poets
Review: This book is full of examples and ideas to jumpstart a struggling writer into many rich hours of poetic bliss.

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Summary: Terrific aid for aspiring poet
Review: This book is well done with many writing ideas to keep you generating poems for the rest of your life. The discussions of the sample poems are excellent and clear. Another good book to add to my stash of books for teaching writing classes.

~Joan Mazza, author of six books including DREAMING YOUR REAL SELF.

Rating:
Summary: Terrific aid for aspiring poet
Review: This book is well done with many writing ideas to keep you generating poems for the rest of your life. The discussions of the sample poems are excellent and clear. Another good book to add to my stash of books for teaching writing classes.

~Joan Mazza, author of six books including DREAMING YOUR REAL SELF.

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Summary: good but not $47 good
Review: This forty-seven dollar paperback is an adequate introduction into poetry writing. In fact, it's quite compreensive in its approach.

But it won't make you a good poet. You need other things, like a dictionary, a dictionary of synonyms, a brain, and a heart. Now to get all of these things after paying $47 for a paperback is tough. A good dictionary is tough to find these days. So is a good brain, and even harder to find after you got the brain is the heart. Who has all five things?

I'm holding the book in my hand and it seems small. It's helped my poetry skills (but, of course, I'm only writing for myself) but, I don't think it was worth the whole $47. Maybe $20. But it's worth having.

Rating:
Summary: good but not $47 good
Review: This forty-seven dollar paperback is an adequate introduction into poetry writing. In fact, it's quite compreensive in its approach.

But it won't make you a good poet. You need other things, like a dictionary, a dictionary of synonyms, a brain, and a heart. Now to get all of these things after paying $47 for a paperback is tough. A good dictionary is tough to find these days. So is a good brain, and even harder to find after you got the brain is the heart. Who has all five things?

I'm holding the book in my hand and it seems small. It's helped my poetry skills (but, of course, I'm only writing for myself) but, I don't think it was worth the whole $47. Maybe $20. But it's worth having.