Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft...
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Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels therefrom through the written word.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780609800980 (0609800981)
ASIN: 609800981
Publish date: April 1st 1997
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 210
Edition language: English
I bought Poemcrazy at a book sale at my undergraduate university and used it after taking a few creative writing classes in poetry.There's a give and take with this book I think people will weigh on a scale depending on how you approach the art of poetry writing. While she talks about her life in s...
I really liked this one. Great for beginners and intermediate poets. :D
This wasn't full of great prompts or theory or anything (compared, for example, to "In the Palm of Your Hand"), but I found this book really touching in its way, and inspiring. She writes as if she's having a conversation with the reader, and she provides some excellent example poems.