Finger Exercises for Poets

by Dorianne Laux

From "a poet of immense insight and masterful craft" (Kwame Dawes), Finger Exercises for Poets is an engaging and inspiriting invitation to practice poetry alongside one of its masters. With wide-ranging examples from classic and contemporary poets, Dorianne Laux demystifies the magic of language that makes great poetry and offers generative exercises to harness that magic. She explores the syllable and the line, the use of form, poetic responses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324050667
• ISBN13: 9781324050667
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"