Poet's Way
Poet's Way
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ISBN / SKU
9781907314049
Format
Paperback
Pages
160
Category/ies
Description
From line to rhyme and shape on the page, this accessible guide tackles the essential elements of poetry writing. With imaginative and inspiring exercises, the author illuminates the craft, providing a practical guide to writing and sharpening up your own work.
Featuring Buddhist reflections on the writing process and considering issues such as influence, memory, and the relationship with prayer and ritual The Poet's Way shows how poetry can reveal new aspects of spiritual life.
PRAISE
"For anyone bewildered by poetry‟s forms, shapes, and particular mind-ways, The Poet‟s Way offers a warm-hearted, step-by-step awakening into the possibilities and powers of poems." Jane Hirshfield, poet and author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry.
"This book will transform your writing no matter what stage in your career, and it may even transform your life" Des Dillon, Arvon Foundation tutor and award-winning poet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Manjusvara has been a practicing Buddhist for over 20 years. Originally a composer, he currently divides his time between writing and editing poetry and fundraising for the Karuna Trust. He is a co-leader of "Wolf at the Door" writing workshops and teaches regularly throughout the world.
READERS REVIEWS:
"There is hardly a chapter here that does not tell a story, give a quotation, or explain a concept from a Buddhist source. And this imparts a unique flavour to the text, it personalises it in a memorable manner, and positively enhances the advice given... The approach is refreshingly unacademic, highly reader-friendly, and the language used is approachable for someone coming fresh to this medium... To sum up, this book immediately and unassumingly makes its way to the front rank of those texts that purport to take the novice writer by the hand. For the experienced poet it also has much to offer. And for the teacher/lecturer it is full of ideas for presenting the art as a subject of immediate relevance and fascination." —John Killick, Writing in Education
"A wise book, and well designed." —Vince & Patty Wixon, William Stafford Archives
"Reading this book for me was like entering an ocean. The entry seemed gradual and straightforward, but seemingly without effort or difficulty I found myself having been guided surely and steadily to deep places where inspiration and treasures were generously offered. I would recommend this book as a great and uniquely accessible guide for anyone sincerely wishing to understand and write poetry, especially where they value reading and writing as a means towards greater sensitivity and awareness of self and world." —Padmachandra
"The recipes in this book are greatly enhanced by Manjusvara's sensitive selection and placing of quotes from the masters of poetry past and present... This book is unique in how it is imperceptibly flavoured with Buddhist mindfulness – an inducement to deepen my practice, integrating writing poetry with meditation – seeing the two as one. Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron says: that mindfulness is loving all the details of one's life; an attentiveness that transcends belief or doctrine. So, too, a good poem loves all the details in the languages it uses: the echoes of sound and meaning that give it form..." —Larry Butler
Featuring Buddhist reflections on the writing process and considering issues such as influence, memory, and the relationship with prayer and ritual The Poet's Way shows how poetry can reveal new aspects of spiritual life.
PRAISE
"For anyone bewildered by poetry‟s forms, shapes, and particular mind-ways, The Poet‟s Way offers a warm-hearted, step-by-step awakening into the possibilities and powers of poems." Jane Hirshfield, poet and author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry.
"This book will transform your writing no matter what stage in your career, and it may even transform your life" Des Dillon, Arvon Foundation tutor and award-winning poet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Manjusvara has been a practicing Buddhist for over 20 years. Originally a composer, he currently divides his time between writing and editing poetry and fundraising for the Karuna Trust. He is a co-leader of "Wolf at the Door" writing workshops and teaches regularly throughout the world.
READERS REVIEWS:
"There is hardly a chapter here that does not tell a story, give a quotation, or explain a concept from a Buddhist source. And this imparts a unique flavour to the text, it personalises it in a memorable manner, and positively enhances the advice given... The approach is refreshingly unacademic, highly reader-friendly, and the language used is approachable for someone coming fresh to this medium... To sum up, this book immediately and unassumingly makes its way to the front rank of those texts that purport to take the novice writer by the hand. For the experienced poet it also has much to offer. And for the teacher/lecturer it is full of ideas for presenting the art as a subject of immediate relevance and fascination." —John Killick, Writing in Education
"A wise book, and well designed." —Vince & Patty Wixon, William Stafford Archives
"Reading this book for me was like entering an ocean. The entry seemed gradual and straightforward, but seemingly without effort or difficulty I found myself having been guided surely and steadily to deep places where inspiration and treasures were generously offered. I would recommend this book as a great and uniquely accessible guide for anyone sincerely wishing to understand and write poetry, especially where they value reading and writing as a means towards greater sensitivity and awareness of self and world." —Padmachandra
"The recipes in this book are greatly enhanced by Manjusvara's sensitive selection and placing of quotes from the masters of poetry past and present... This book is unique in how it is imperceptibly flavoured with Buddhist mindfulness – an inducement to deepen my practice, integrating writing poetry with meditation – seeing the two as one. Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron says: that mindfulness is loving all the details of one's life; an attentiveness that transcends belief or doctrine. So, too, a good poem loves all the details in the languages it uses: the echoes of sound and meaning that give it form..." —Larry Butler
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