The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse
"There is a vision behind this book, and that is that writing is a lifelong assignment, that one keeps doing such exercises to get stronger. Indeed, the examples themselves make a great anthology, and the range of theoretical scaffolding for each exercise creates in itself an important course. In brief, this is the book that should be in every workshop." --Richard Jackson, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, author of Resonance and Unauthorized Autobiography"If you're a writing teacher, you'll find yourself itching to use the exercises. If you're a student reading The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, you'll be lamenting, "Man, why wasn't I in that class?" Hunley makes teaching one continuous act of invention for both the student and the instructor." --Alexandria Peary, Salem State University"The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse is the complete workout! While it can help poets create new work in a variety of aesthetics and modes--New Formalism and Language poetry, Imagism and Ultra-Talk--anyone who trains with the The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse certainly will make poems that are beautiful, powerful, and energetic." --Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University"If you're a writing teacher, you'll find yourself itching to use the exercises. If you're a student reading The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, you'll be lamenting, "Man, why wasn't I in that class?" Hunley makes teaching one continuous act of invention for both the student and the instructor." --Alexandria Peary, Salem State University"The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse is the complete workout! While it can help poets create new work in a variety of aesthetics and modes--New Formalism and Language poetry, Imagism and Ultra-Talk--anyone who trains with the The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse certainly will make poems that are beautiful, powerful, and energetic." --Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University"Provides nearly one hundred practice lessons for improving all aspects of poetry and poetic prose." --Reference & Research Book News."The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse is the complete workout! While it can help poets create new work in a variety of aesthetics and modes--New Formalism and Language poetry, Imagism and Ultra-Talk--anyone who trains with the The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse certainly will make poems that are beautiful, powerful, and energetic." --Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University