The Way to Write Poetry: A Complete Guide to the Basic Skills of Writing Poetry By michael-baldwin

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This for anyone who has ever thought of writing a poem With basic advice for the beginner discussions of the practicalities of form both traditional and contemporary and many examples the book also provides clarification for the experienced poet The Way to Write Poetry A Complete Guide to the Basic Skills of Writing PoetryMy grandmother died in 2011 with a lot of unfinished business as a writer and poet In the final days of her life she lamented having never really fulfilled her dreams and urged me to continue with my own writing She left me this book and many others when she died and it s taken me until now to finally read it. The way to write poetryn examples The front cover of my edition of The Way to Write Poetry reprint 1987 includes the subtitle a complete guide to the basic skills of writing poetry but I think this is a little misleading The subtitle implies simplicity and this book is definitely not simplistic or written in layman s terms it s comprehensive and at times reads like a cryptic poem The book has 12 chapters and each is broken down into numbered sub sections I think the book would have been user friendly if each chapter and section had been given descriptive names I didn t read the book like a novel but worked my way through each of the sub sections sometimes spending a day or two even weeks on particular sections practicing the techniques getting to know a poetic form or device outlined in the chapter I found the first half of the book to be very helpful in terms of actually constructing a poem The author shared specific techniques for writing a poems as well as how to start an overall writing practice The book moves through a broad range of forms and uses examples from famous as well as lesser known poets to illustrate techniques I found the second half of the book a bit onerous as the author seemed to use a microscope to analyse some complex poems Sentences like So let us consider it as a six stressed line in origin five dactyls followed by a spondee Precedence says that any dactyl except the fifth may have a spondee substituted for it were common This isn t necessarily a criticism it s about writing a review that explains the essence of the book I found a lot of it quite hard to follow and had to really concentrate and re read sections to understand what the author was saying But at the same time I have emerged from the reading eager to study and write poems: Book the way to write poetry pdf Overall I found the book excellent and very useful and feel connected to my grandmother because of it michael baldwin