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    The Art and Craft of Poetry: Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery
    The Art and Craft of Poetry: Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery
    The Art and Craft of Poetry: Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery
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    The Art and Craft of Poetry: Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery

    By Michael R. Collings

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    Polished over 20 years of use at the university level, this book combines Professor Collings's lucid instruction with practical exercises to introduce beginners to poetry, and to encourage more practiced poets to expand their horizons. Twenty poetic exercises that will strengthen and hone your craft!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateMar 11, 2014
    ISBN9781479408788
    The Art and Craft of Poetry: Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery
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    Michael R. Collings

    I am a professor emeritus of English at Pepperdine University in Malibu CA (although my retirement home is in southwestern Idaho). During my twenty-seven years at Pepperdine I taught everything from Freshman Composition to Advanced Grammar to Business Writing; from Survey of English Literature to Milton and the Epic; from Introduction to Creative Writing to Senior Seminars in Writing.Along the way, I discovered the joys of writing, not just to meet requirements for graduate degrees or to insure tenure, but for myself--saying things in a way that might make my thoughts more interesting for readers and thereby invite them back into the books I talked about. Most of my academic writing relates to authors I love: John Milton, the great 17th-century English poet, on the one hand; Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Piers Anthony, and additional science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers on the other.But my real love now is creative writing: novels, short stories, and most especially poetry. My offerings range from the three-line haiku found in Tissue Promises to a 6,500-line epic, The Nephiad. And everything in between.Please let me know what you think at my website: http://www.starshineandshadows.com/

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      Very good book on introduction to basics of poetry. Recommend to any student looking to expand their creative writing skills and techniques to set them apart.

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