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As if Joseph Campbell composed a "How To" book on writing, the exercises in Writing Your Rhythm are designed to free the imaginative writer in everyone. Divided into five main sections, the book relates the act of writing to our understanding of nature, the way culture shapes expression, form itself, and the enduring role myths play in creativity. Fun and useful to classrooms of all grade levels, and to the solitary writer engrossed in her heroic act.
Diane Thiel's Echolocations won the 13th Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (2000). The author of two chapbooks from Aralia Press, she teaches at the University of Miami.
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About the Author
Diane Thiel won the 2000 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize for her first book. She has also received the Robert Frost Prize, the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Prize, and has been a Fulbright Scholar (2002). She teaches at the University of New Mexico.
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Award-winning poet Thiel (Univ. of Miami; Echolocations) here documents her favorite teaching methods, focusing on topics like nature, form, storytelling, and myth making. Thiel takes passages from many well-known works and some from classes she has taught as samples of what doesn't work and what does and, more importantly, why. The last section, "Myth-Making," crosses over into writing narrative, as Thiel notes that even poetry is storytelling. She doles out ideas generously, and some of them seem more likely to strike sparks "tell an outrageous lie" than others "describe the color blue." The focus may be on writing poetry, but she calls on narrative, journalism, and simply wandering the library as sources for inspiration and for structure. A useful text for poets and would-be poets alike, this is appropriate for advanced high school or undergraduate poetry courses. Robert Moore, Parexel International, Waltham, MA
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