Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry - Softcover

Kapell, Dave; Steenland, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761107371 ISBN 13: 9780761107378

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

The poems in this pack are published in a spiral-bound anthology which has a magnetic-ready back cover, and is packaged with a vinyl pouch containing 100 word tiles, enabling the reader to write poems on any magnetic surface (such as a refrigerator door) at any time.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Magnetic Poetry is one-man Scrabble and the prize is insight. (Robert Hass, Former Poet Laureate)

Taking poetry out of the academy and into the homes and neighborhoods of America, Magnetic Poetry has inspired a new nation of poets. Collected here is some of their best work-fresh, poignant, vivid, and lyrical poems from first-graders and grandmothers, housewives and ex-hippies, stockbrokers, teenagers, and punk rockers.

And because Magnetic Poetry can strike anyone, anytime, this book contains a poetry primer, with writing exercises from odes to alphabet poems, jigsaw poems to ghazals, plus the basics of rhyme, meter, and form. To complete the kit-over 100 word titles in a vinyl pouch and a magnet-friendly front cover.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

(From the author's preface)

WARNING: Magnetic Poetry can be habit-forming. If reading the work of other magnetic poets inspires you to create your own, please use the magnetic-poetic tools included in this book:

--A poetry primer providing directions and suggestions for different kinds of poems, ways to approach the making of poetry, and tips and techniques especially appropriate to magnetic poetry;

--A portable "starter set" of words, including some not found in any other Magnetic Poetry kit, and a magnet-friendly front cover.

Keep this book close to you-poetry can strike at any time, anywhere. You'll want to be ready whether you're in a caf, or a Laundromat or in line at the bank. And send us your best poems-we'd like to read them.

Excerpted from The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry. Copyright (c) 1997. Reprinted with permission by Workman Publishing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761107371
• ISBN 13: 9780761107378
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 160