Poemcrazy: Creating a Life with Words - Hardcover

Susan G. Wooldridge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 051770370X ISBN 13: 9780517703700

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 1996

Synopsis

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

About this title

Review:

Poemcrazy is the poetic analog to Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird or Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, two classic works on how to forget that you "can't write" and just start the pen moving. Susan Wooldridge is a swimming instructor in the wide ocean of language, encouraging us to move ever farther from the shore, dive deep, and dance on the waves.

About the Author:

Susan G. Wooldridge conducts writing workshops privately, through Poets & Writers, Inc., and with the California Poets in the Schools program. She is the author of Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, a Book Sense Pick, a long-running Quality Paperback Book Club selection, and a Writer's Digest Book Club selection. She has also written a chapbook of poems, Bathing with Ants.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 051770370X
• ISBN 13: 9780517703700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209