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Ordinary genius : a guide for the poet within
Addonizio, Kim
Adult Nonfiction PN1042 .A348 2009
Addonizio, Kim
Adult Nonfiction PN1042 .A348 2009
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| Contents | Page |
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| introduction | p. 13 |
| I - entering poetry | |
| 1 - leaping in the dark | p. 19 |
| 2 - make a book | p. 23 |
| 3 - first thought, worst thought | p. 27 |
| 4 - getting started | p. 32 |
| 5 - opening doors | p. 47 |
| 6 - your genius, your demons | p. 55 |
| 7 - line, breath & vision | p. 61 |
| 8 - by heart: a Shakespeare sonnet | p. 77 |
| 9 - describe this | p. 81 |
| 10 - read this | p. 92 |
| II - inner and outer worlds | |
| 11 - identity 1: boys, girls & bodies | p. 99 |
| 12 - three meditations | p. 109 |
| 13 - by heart: a love poem | p. 113 |
| 14 - love & sex poems | p. 115 |
| 15 - me, myself & i | p. 127 |
| 16 - what you don't know | p. 135 |
| 17 - three observations | p. 145 |
| 18 - the pain-body | p. 148 |
| 19 - ha! working with humor | p. 156 |
| 20 - identity 2: race, class & privilege | p. 164 |
| 21 - the whiskey on your breath: addictions | p. 170 |
| III - the poem's progress | |
| 22 - metaphor 1: the shimmer | p. 179 |
| 23 - white heat, necessary coldness | p. 187 |
| 24 - a bag of tricks | p. 199 |
| 25 - the poem's progress | p. 204 |
| 26 - metaphor 2: parts & the whole | p. 217 |
| 27 - enchantments: myths & fairy tales | p. 226 |
| IV - toward mastery | |
| 28 - music & meter | p. 237 |
| 29 - write a sonnet | p. 249 |
| 30 - a poem you love: close reading | p. 256 |
| 31 - page to stage: performance | p. 259 |
| 32 - word/art: make a broadside | p. 263 |
| 33 - two heads: collaborations | p. 269 |
| 34 - do-overs & revisions | p. 273 |
| 35 - publishing & the pinocchio syndrome | p. 287 |
| 36 - mirror at the end of the road | p. 294 |
| appendix A - poems & poetry resources online | p. 299 |
| appendix B - recommended reading | p. 303 |
| credits | p. 309 |
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