In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop - by Steve Kowit, 1995
Every poet - as well as any writer - has their own method of getting that bird in the hand, rather than beating around the bush. This is another one of Linda’s favorite books for chewing through miscellaneous crap to get to the essentials. Kowit employs more than 100 poems and excerpts to illustrate his discussions on everything from metaphor to meter to metaphysics. If you work your way through this book you’ll feel as though you’ve sat in on a terrific creative-writing seminar, minus the criticism (both constructive and destructive) of fellow students. If you go by the book, you’ll have written at least 69 poems by the last page.
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