Writing Poetry from the Inside Out: Finding Your Voice Through the Craft of Poetry - Softcover

Lyne, Sandford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402208448 ISBN 13: 9781402208447

Publisher: Sourcebooks, 2007

Synopsis

In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding that poetry is an art form open to everyone. We all can-and should-write poetry.

In this enchanting and inspiring volume, Lyne will introduce you to the pleasures and surprises of writing poetry, and his methods and insights will help you tap into your own unique voice and perspective to compose poems of your own in as little as a few minutes.

Whether you are an experienced writer looking for new techniques and sources of inspiration or a novice poet who has never written a poem in your life, Writing Poetry from the Inside Out will help you to craft the poems you've always longed to write.

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About the Author

Poet Sandy Lyne has led poetry writing workshops across the country for the last twenty years. His poems have been published in numerous journals, including the American Poetry Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Louisiana Literature and Louisiana Review. He lives outside Lafayette, Louisiana.

From the Back Cover

Writing Poetry from the Inside Out
In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding that poetry is an art form open to everyone. We all can--and should--write poetry.
In this enchanting and inspiring volume, Lyne will introduce you to the pleasures and surprises of writing poetry, and his methods and insights will help you tap into your own unique voice and perpesctive to compose poems of your own in as little as a few minutes.
Whether you are an experienced writer looking for new techniques and sources of inspiration or a novice poet who has never written a poem in your life, Writing Poetry from the Inside Out will help you to craft the poems you?ve always longed to write.
Sandford Lyne has led poetry writing workshops across the country for the last twenty years. His poems have been published in numerous journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares 7, Poetry East, Louisiana Literature, and Louisiana Review. He lives outside Lafayette, Louisiana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402208448
• ISBN 13: 9781402208447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288