So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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The cover first drew me to this book, but the wisdom inside has held me to it. I had been toying with the idea of writing poetry again after a decades-long hiatus, and WTLP was the catalyst that started me writing immediately and almost non-stop. The book is easy to read, the exercises are challenging enough to hold one's interest, the examples are inspirational. Others here have written longer and more beautifully (poetically) than I. If you are looking for a book to help you write your own poetry, buy Sage Cohen's book. It will do the job -- beautifully, poetically, and better than the rest of the others.
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Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry by Sage Cohen
The Red-Crested Poet, October 12, 2010
The cover first drew me to this book, but the wisdom inside has held me to it. I had been toying with the idea of writing poetry again after a decades-long hiatus, and WTLP was the catalyst that started me writing immediately and almost non-stop. The book is easy to read, the exercises are challenging enough to hold one's interest, the examples are inspirational. Others here have written longer and more beautifully (poetically) than I. If you are looking for a book to help you write your own poetry, buy Sage Cohen's book. It will do the job -- beautifully, poetically, and better than the rest of the others.