Poetry : big thoughts in small packages
Title:
Poetry : big thoughts in small packages
Personal Author EPSB:
Year Published:
2013
Physical Description:
ix, 147 pages ; 22 x 29 cm
Contents:
Seeing with poets' eyes -- Listening for line breaks -- Putting powerful thoughts in tiny packages -- Poets make sure their poems grow from the strong feelings and concrete details of life -- Editing poetry -- Searching for honest, precise words: language matters -- Patterning through repetition -- Poems are moody -- Using comparisons (metaphors) to clarify feelings and ideas -- Stretching out a comparison -- Revising stories into poems by bringing out the image and music -- Studying structure -- With poets' eyes, study a mentor text, ascertaining how it was made -- Matching structures to feelings -- Playing with point-of view -- Revising poems: replacing feeling words with word pictures -- Editing poems: reading aloud to find trouble spots -- Presenting poems to the world: an author's celebration.
ISBN:
9780325047317
Publisher:
Portsmouth, NH : Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann, [2013]