Streams : Life Secrets for Writing Poems and Songs

Sandra Hochman

ISBN 10: 1683365313 / ISBN 13: 9781683365310

Published by Turner, 2017

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by Huffington Films), a film that showcases one of the most pivotal times for feminism in the 1970s. Amongst her friends were Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, and Jack Kerouac. Her first husband was world-famous violinist Ivry Gitlis and she once had a torrid love affair with poet Robert Lowell. Her network extends to some of pop culture's greatest names. - Beloved title in Hochman collection. Classic academic title: Streams was a staple in libraries and school nation-wide as the definitive text on teaching poetry reading and writing. Award-winning author: Sandra Hochman has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition Award, and is also the recipient of 1st Metropolitan Museum Award of Merit.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Streams : Life Secrets for Writing Poems and Songs
• Publisher: Turner
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683365313
• ISBN 13: 9781683365310
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 191H x 10D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 191 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 348 grams

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Synopsis

Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's treatise on poetry and songwriting, Streams.

First published by Prentice-Hall in 1978, Hochman's approach to teaching is just as unconventional and revelatory today as it was forty years ago.

From the Introduction by Hochman: This is a personal book that I hope will be like a friend. In a simple way I want to tell you some thoughts that I have about writing poetry and songs, and share with you some warm-up exercises for writing that can be used to limber up the mind the same way that dancers limber before a performance. Writing has always been for me a necessary experience― something that I feel compelled to do. If that feeling of wanting to write is inside of you―what I call the Necessary Angel wanting to speak―that writing can be a part of your life experience the way it is part of mine.

About the Author

The author of six novels with three forthcoming from Turner Publishing, Sandra Hochman is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet with six volumes of poetry. She also authored two nonfiction books and directed a 1973 documentary, Year of the Woman, currently enjoying a renaissance. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she was a columnist for Harpers Bazaar. She also ran her own foundation, "You're an Artist Too" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to teach poetry and song writing to children ages 7–12 for fifteen years.