Download or read book Terse Verse Jest for Fun written by Al Joneson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ode Less Travelled written by Stephen Fry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian and actor Stephen Fry's witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry. Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he invites readers to discover the delights of writing poetry for pleasure and provides the tools and confidence to get started. Through enjoyable exercises, witty insights, and simple step-by-step advice, Fry introduces the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Most of us have never been taught to read or write poetry, and so it can seem mysterious and intimidating. But Fry, a wonderfully competent, engaging teacher and a writer of poetry himself, sets out to correct this problem by explaining the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. Fry's method works, and his enthusiasm is contagious as he explores different forms of poetry: the haiku, the ballad, the villanelle, and the sonnet, among many others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is not just the survey course you never took in college, it's a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try.
Download or read book You May Think Life Stinks But It Could Be Verse written by Steven Stoker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look through any neighborhood, pick out any random country farmhouse, search through any military barracks, screen any school enrollment sheet and you can find them-"closet" poets! They scribble their innermost thoughts down in notebooks, on envelopes, even on napkins and then stash them away in secret places! Why? Because those sentiments are a part of them-a part they want to recall later, whenever they feel the need to relive those treasured moments, recapture the emotions, and savor those extraordinary experiences again. Such poetry runs the gamut from horrendous to brilliant, but that does not matter. The quality of the work is unimportant! What is important is that someone out there has chosen the written word to create a literary "painting" that tries to capture a moment in time and space to save it for posterity. You May Think Life Stinks But It Could Be Verse is a collection of one man's meandering psyche. It contains a lot of chaff but an occasional precious kernel of wheat can be found that can be useful in nourishing the reader's psyche as well. Read, enjoy, and let the critics do the analysis!
Download or read book The Strangely Pink Kayak written by Robert Lynch and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poems is, at times, a journal of some of my experiences, although sometimes it is tongue-in-cheek, or wishful thinking. It probably reflects accurately how an older person with years under his belt assesses life. (though, sometimes, its just goofiness). That’s what life should be.. serious, happy, and silly.
Download or read book The Good Times and the Hard Times written by Arthur Finch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume is Dedicated toCathy Parrish BoothOne of the sweetest, kindest, and most gentle Persons I have Ever knownCathy, God Loves you and I love you.Arthur G. Finch
Download or read book Teaching Poetry Writing written by Tom C. Hunley and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach" is a comprehensive alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five-canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based on the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.
Download or read book Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fourteen on Form written by William Baer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with some of the most influential poets of the late twentieth century
Download or read book The Poet s A Z written by Alison Chisholm and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-Z of poetry, this book is a glossary for writers filled with information, examples and exercises to enhance the poet's skills.
Download or read book A Better Kind of Madness written by Deborah Renee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Better Kind of Madness presents an exciting new poetry collection focused on visual imagery that seeks to engulf the senses of the reader and carry them into new realms and horizons of thought. The simple, imaginative verse contains layers of meaning, full of strong emotional content peppered with joy and humor, wit and wackiness, anger and sadness, all written with sincere passion. In this, her first collection, poet Deborah Renee shares poetry that is honest, emotional, and heartfeltverses designed to speak to anyone and everyone. "If insanity is what we must accept and live with, then may God help us all to find a better kind of madness." deborah renee Sit for a moment ... grab a cup of tea or coffee, open this book and read about: The power of jigsaw puzzles Why the old man sits on the porch What the moon whispers See the saxophone tones Immerse yourself in the misty morning Meet wacky Basketown characters Find out what you might see on a solitary country road See your soul in ripples of faith Experience Jim Crow through the eyes of a child Add these ingredients to your simmering stew Chuckle at the Fat Cat's tribute to Dr. Seuss Gain a whole new perspective on maggots Hear my great-great grandmother's message Taste, inhale and feel the rainbow. Decide if you would drink the witch's brew Learn what kind of light isn't a light Enter into the powerful chapter of Fire Shadows, or cool yourself in the chapter of Water Visions. Yes ... it's all in here, and more! Written in free-verse rhymed and non-rhymed, rhyming couplets, haiku, senyru, narrative, rhyming quatrains, blank verse, limericks and other forms.
Download or read book Rhyme and Reason written by Elaine Beachy and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s something about poetry that calls to the deepest part of the human soul. Thoughts such as wondering where God came from, developing a good self-image, struggling with family relationships, overcoming life’s experiences, nurturing spiritual health, caring about cultural issues, and more are subjects with which the reader will connect. Rhyme and Reason is the collection of seventy of Elaine’s poetry written since 1978 and offered here for your enjoyment. She has also included some of her short stories near the end of the book that make for interesting reading, including a biblical fiction piece about Joseph and Mary, as well as a true story of a miraculous healing, and a piece of fiction titled “House of Cards.” Curl up with a cup of coffee or hot chocolate, and savor the experience.
Download or read book The Hundredfold written by Anthony Esolen and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hundredfold is a tapestry of hymns, monologues, and short lyrics knit together as one book-length poem in praise of Christ in all his startling humanity. Drawing from the riches of the English poetic tradition—meter, rhyme, music—the poet considers the mysterious man from Nazareth and the world he came to set on fire with splendor. Having made a career translating the Italian masters Dante and Tasso, Anthony Esolen now puts on the dusty mantle of such English craftsmen as Donne, Milton, and Hopkins in his first book of original contemplative poetry. The Hundredfold contains dramatic monologues set in first-century Greece and Palestine; lyrical meditations on creation, longing, failure, modern emptiness, and unshakeable hope; and twenty-one brand-new hymns, set to such traditional melodies as “Picardy” and “Old One-Hundred-Twenty-Fourth”. The book includes an introduction with diamond-sharp insights into English poetic form—at a time when form is so often misunderstood, if not dismissed. It provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and poets themselves, as well as those who simply read poetry for pleasure.
Download or read book Collected Works written by William Henry Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hind in Richmond Park written by William Henry Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains the last words of the great naturalist ... The author before his death handed to us the full manuscript of the book with the exception of the last chapter, which he said wanted a little revision. ... We wish to put on record our thanks to his old friend Mr. Morley Roberts for the loving, patient care which he gave to the work of interpretation, in which he has succeeded in making plain the closing pages of the book..." -- Publishers note.
Download or read book The Collected Works of W H Hudson A hind in Richmond Park written by William Henry Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Works of W H Hudson The purple land being the narrative of one Richard Lamb s adventures in the Banda Orient l in South America as told by himself written by William Henry Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Jack London written by James W. Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his novels, journalism, short stories, political activism, and travel writing, Jack London established himself as one of the most prolific and diverse authors of the twentieth century. Covering London's biography, cultural context, and the various genres in which he wrote, The Oxford Handbook of Jack London is the definitive reference work on the author.
