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Living Room Craft Talks with Ellen Bass
If you want to learn more about the strategies that you can employ to write poems that are more vivid, arresting, meaningful and complex, this courage provides practical teachings that you'll be able to put to use at whatever stage of development you're at--whether you're just beginning or are an experienced and published poet. Though these talks are focused on poetry, prose writers are welcome too. If you write memoir or fiction, you will find that this precise attention to language will enrich your work as well.
The topics are:
The Art of Metaphor: What Is It Like?
Detail and Description: The Workhorses that Carry Emotion
Creating Tension through Multiple Pressures
Controlled Chaos: The Long-Armed Poem
Syntax: Natural and Not
Discovery: The Heart of the Matter
Ellen Bass is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and has been teaching writers through her practical and inspiring approach for almost fifty years!