Spreading the word
Subtitle: poetry and the survival of community in America
By: Ross Talarico.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Talarico, Ross, 1945-  -- Authorship; Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester; Community life -- New York (State) -- Rochester; Literature and society -- United States; Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States; Poetry -- Authorship; Rochester (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
Description: Describes a unique approach for eliciting poetry from people of many ages and backgrounds--particularly underprivileged urban kids and the elderly. The process--from dialogue to self-expression to publication to public event--illuminates the urgency and meaning of releasing the spirit captured in each man and woman and child's experience.