- Paperback
- Publisher: Little Brown (1987)
- ISBN-10: 0316920002
- ISBN-13: 978-0316920001
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 16 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Powerful Creative Writing Text for Poets,
By John N. Thornburg "Professor English / Creati... (San Jacinto College, Pasadena / Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Writing Poems (Paperback)
WRITING POEMS by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace, 6th ed., offers clear advice, appropriate examples, and stimulating suggestions for creating poems. I recommend this text to advanced poetry students who have had at least one semester of creative writing. R. S. Gwynn's Poetry: A Harper Collins Pocket Anthology would complement this text in a junior-level college poetry writing course.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Seek an earlier edition,
By A Customer
This review is from: Writing Poems (Paperback)
I have a previous edition of this book which I've really enjoyed, but something seems to have washed out of this current offering. The book is dedicated to Robert Wallace, who died during the compilation of edition #4, and I'm wondering if the book didn't go to press in a daze. This edition seems slicker, perkier, and less succinct than it's siblings. Still useful and nutritious but in that low-salt, high-fiber way that I don't want my poems or books about poems to have. My suggestion is to try an earlier edition. In my daydreams, every poet has read this book (edition #2 I can vouch for), as well as the books "Western Wind" and "In the Palm of Your Hand" and gorgeous, flexing poems are lying about everywhere. It could happen.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Do Not Buy This Book If You Want To Be A Poet,
By A Customer
This review is from: Writing Poems (Paperback)
This is the WORST textbook I have ever read, from its simple- and literal- minded deconstructions of great poems soiled by the dim illuminations of them, to its muddled explanations of prosody and poetics. There are far better books out there for the aspiring poet. Try "Writing Poetry" by Barbara Drake; "The Art of Poetry Writing" and "The Poet's Dictionary" by William Packard; "The Book of Forms" by Lewis Turco; "Thirteen Ways Of Looking For A Poem" by Wendy Bishop; and before all these others you must read "Letters To A Young Poet" by Rilke (translated by Herter Norton).
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