Creative Writing
Objectives
Take time to notice the ordinary-extraordinary things. Goethe, in ‘The Poet’s Year’ talks about making the reader observant of things which; “recur as ordinary and familiar”. Rodin’s advice to the Poet Rilke was to simply “regard and observe”.
-T. Byron K.
"Novelist Nadine Gordimer has called writing the most solitary of occupations, comparable only to that of lighthouse keeper."
-Linda Anderson-Creative Writing-A Workbook With Readings
"Just trust your own voice. And keep exploring the things that are interesting to you."
-Nikki Giovanni
-T. Byron K.
"Novelist Nadine Gordimer has called writing the most solitary of occupations, comparable only to that of lighthouse keeper."
-Linda Anderson-Creative Writing-A Workbook With Readings
"Just trust your own voice. And keep exploring the things that are interesting to you."
-Nikki Giovanni
Texts
Creative Writing-A Workbook With Readings
http://amzn.com/041537243
Paperback: 664 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 3, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415372437
ISBN-13: 978-0415372435
"Really a tome on how to live a conscious human life, as strange as that might sound. The book is about slowing down, looking, listening, watching, and sensing with all of one's senses...and then watching what arises." -Amazon.com Review
Rilke-Letters to A Young Poet
http://amzn.com/0393310396
Paperback: 123 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Revised edition (August 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393310396
ISBN-13: 978-0393310399
The Poets Handbook
http://amzn.com/1582971366
Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc (December 1, 1980)
Language: English ISBN-10: 1582971366 ISBN-13: 978-1582971360
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton Legacy Library)
http://amzn.com/0691013179
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Paperback: 932 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Enlarged edition (January 1, 1974)
Language: English ISBN-10: 0691013179 ISBN-13: 978-0691013176
Goethe-The Poet's Year
http://books.google.com/books?id=f_0pAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA355&ots=U_IjV2uhqN&dq=Goethe%20%22the%20poet's%20year%22&pg=PA355#v=onepage
Magnetic Poetry
http://amzn.com/1890560014
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