Overview

Learning to write poetry has never been so easy! In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding that poetry is an art form open to everyone. We all can-and should-write poetry. In this enchanting and inspiring volume, Lyne will introduce you to the pleasures and surprises of writing poetry, and his methods and insights will help you tap into your own unique voice and perspective to compose poems of your own in as little as a few minutes. Whether you are an experienced writer looking for new techniques and sources of inspiration or a novice poet who has never written a poem in your life, Writing Poetry from the Inside Out will help you to craft the poems you've always longed to write.

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Author:   Sandford Lyne
Publisher:   Sourcebooks, Inc
Imprint:   Sourcebooks, Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781402208447

ISBN 10:   1402208448
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 April 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Part I:In Preparation Chapter 1:The Golden String Chapter 2:Beginning Your Journey--The Writer's Studio Chapter 3:Artists in Light and Sound Chapter 4:Pick-Up Sticks, or The Trick of Being You Chapter 5:Our Materials--Words Part II: The Methods Chapter 6:Poem-Sketching Chapter 7:Giving the Poem a Form Chapter 8:Additional Exercises with Poem-Sketching Chapter 9: Matching Poems Chapter 10:Alternative Thinking Chapter 11:Shake It Up Chapter 12:The Poem as a Self-Portrait Chapter 13:The Power of Beliefs Chapter 14:Voice--Being Yourself on Paper Chapter 15:Creating Your Own Word Groups Chapter 16:Life Is the Teacher--Writing Poems from Daily Experience Chapter 17:Inner and Outer Observation Chapter 18:Adding Sound Chapter 19:Reading Other Poets Chapter 20:Circles of Awareness Part III:Transformations Chapter 21:Writing Poetry--The Spiritual Journey Chapter 22:The Community of Poets Appendixes Appendix A:Suggested Reading Appendix B:Poem-Sketching Appendix C:Word Groups About the Author

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Poet Sandy Lyne has led poetry writing workshops across the country for the last twenty years. His poems have been published in numerous journals, including the American Poetry Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Louisiana Literature and Louisiana Review. He lives outside Lafayette, Louisiana.

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