
Writing Poetry from the Inside Out
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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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Sandford Lyne has led poetry writing workshops across the country for the last 20 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.
Content
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: In Preparation
Chapter 1: The Golden String
Chapter 2: Beginning Your Journey--The Writer's Studio
Chapter 3: Artists in Light and Sound
Chapter 4: Pick-Up Sticks, or The Trick of Being You
Chapter 5: Our Materials--Words
Part II: The Methods
Chapter 6: Poem-Sketching
Chapter 7: Giving the Poem a Form
Chapter 8: Additional Exercises with Poem-Sketching
Chapter 9: "Matching" Poems
Chapter 10: Alternative Thinking
Chapter 11: Shake It Up
Chapter 12: The Poem as a Self-Portrait
Chapter 13: The Power of Beliefs
Chapter 14: Voice--Being Yourself on Paper
Chapter 15: Creating Your Own Word Groups
Chapter 16: Life Is the Teacher--Writing Poems from Daily
Experience
Chapter 17: Inner and Outer Observation
Chapter 18: Adding Sound
Chapter 19: Reading Other Poets
Chapter 20: Circles of Awareness
Part III: Transformations
Chapter 21: Writing Poetry--The Spiritual Journey
Chapter 22: The Community of Poets
Appendixes
Appendix A: Suggested Reading
Appendix B: Poem-Sketching
Appendix C: Word Groups
About the Author
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