In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop
An illuminating and invaluable guide for beginners wary of modern poetry, as well as for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft and write poems that expand their technical skills, excite their imaginations, and engage their deepest memories and concerns. Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing—and reading—contemporary poetry.
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An illuminating and invaluable guide for beginners wary of modern poetry, as well as for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft and write poems that expand their technical skills, excite their imaginations, and engage their deepest memories and concerns. Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing—and reading—contemporary poetry.
ForewordA Few Words before Getting Started1How to Begin12I Couldn't Stop Watching83Little Poems in Prose214Shards of Memory: Playing With Time305Awful Poems386The Art of Revision487After-Glow: The Interior Music568Lonely as a Leftover Thumb: Figure and Image649Speeding Home in Reverse: The Controlling Metaphor7910Myth, Legend, and Pop Icon8811Family Secrets: The Poem as Photograph9412Cut-Ups, Cross-Outs, and Ransom Notes10213The House of Language11114Flying Into Oneself: Dream Work and the Magical Image12115Deranging the Senses: Automatic Writing And Ecstatic Poetics12916Coils of Hardened Copper: The Modernist Revolution13717Playing With Meter: The Measure of a Poem14618A Lighthearted Look at Formal Structure: Limericks and Double Dactyls15419More Pleasures of Form and Rhyme: Sonnets and Villanelles15920A Cribsheet of English Meters16521Line Breaks16922The Body Politic18223As Soon as These Blossoms Open: The Poetry of Love and Longing19424Bodies Flaring in the Moonlight: The Poetry of Desire20625Flower Burning in the Day: Poems of Loss21526Into the Dazzling Void: Writing About the Natural World22527Poetry and the Awakened Life23428The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Poetry Workshops24629Getting Your Poems into the World25230Resources259Acknowledgements264Index270
