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  <title><![CDATA[The Art and Craft of Poetry]]></title>
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  <default_description>Poets will build their poetry-writing skills with help from past and contemporary masters--everything from generating ideas to examining the finished poem. They'll learn how to: * Use journals to develop their observational skills and turn life experiences into ideas for poems * Master the tools of the trade--voice, line, stanza, title, meter and rhyme * Acquire fluency in a variety of poetry formats and forms, everything from narrative, lyric and dramatic verse (traditional formats) to fixed, free and sequence styles (traditional forms) * Fine tune their work Exercises, assignments and sample work from more than 100 standout poets--everyone from Louise Gl&#252;ck to Walt Whitman--ensure that every reader, whether poet, student or bibliophile, discovers just how extraordinary poetry can be.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael J. Bugeja, The Art and Craft of Poetry (Writer's Digest, 1994)<br/><br/>Bugeja gets the first Gentleman's C I have ever given a book. I didn't even make the fifty-page mark with this turkey, quitting twenty-seven pages in, because Bugeja broke the cardinal rule of poetry in a flagrant and of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13271226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Except for some interesting remarks in his chapter on lines, I would have given this book the dreaded one star. I'm not sure this book would even be good for a beginning poet, as limited as Bugeja's presentation of &quot;types&quot; is, but it certainly isn't for anyone who has any sustained interes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47300451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing how to book for beginner and advanced alike]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm using this book as a daily writing discipline. Each chapter gives a series of assignments for 3 levels of poets. I'm starting out with level one. Completing the assignments will produce 10-15 poems. Then I can go through it again, do level 2, and then again with level 3, and I'll have two more s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32008758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['Didn't find it helpful, but it's an okay introduction to some aspects of the craft of poetry, albeit a bit boring.]]></body>
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