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Drawing on the success of *The Poet’s Companion*, Kim Addonizio offers fresh insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons learned along her personal poetic journey. The book covers timeless subjects—love, loss, identity, community—while presenting a diverse array of writing exercises, including innovative use of the Internet. Chapters that address gender, race, and class encourage readers to deepen their creative vision. Addonizio shares both breakthroughs and frustrations, including excerpts from rejection slips, and provides encouragement along with detailed discussions of form, structure, metaphor, rhythm, revision, and the elusive goal of publishing. This guide is suitable for beginners, experienced poets, groups, classrooms, and anyone eager to engage in the ongoing dialogue of poetry.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Poetry/Contemporary Poetry
Authors: Kim Addonizio
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