The 6.5 practices of moderately successful poets
Subtitle: a self-help memoir
By: Jeffrey Skinner
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781936747276
Subjects: Authorship; Humor; Poetry; Biography; American Poets
Other titles: Six point five practices of moderately successful poets; Six and a half practices of moderately successful poets; Practices of moderately successful poets
Table of contents: title: Protects talent. What is talent? ; The part that learns without effort ; Rigor, precision ; Unfairness ; Necessary selfishness ; Life and work ; The background check; title: Finds the liminal place. The in-between ; Ignition ; Let's get lost ; A pathway to the gateway ; Meandering, description, music ; Not so hot, better, limit interference, endure ; Top ten poet complaints; title: Makes use.  Phil & company ; Crafty craft ; O, research ; The private eye ; Bobby the ape; title: Discipline (self). Bad boat, bad boy ; The silence of the iambs ; The revisionarium ; The time clock; title: Finds poetry companion. How far from the self ; A little help from my friends ; Ask Dr. Frankenpoem, your poetry companion; title: Ambitious for the work. Ignores outer validation ; Ink runs from the corners of my mouth ; Things that, while possibly admirable, mean nothing for a career ; Things that may move your career forward ; Things that guarantee you will not have a career ; Smarts ; The pre M.F.A. save-your-time & money quiz; title: Takes the long view. The long view ; The young ; Family guy.