I really loved the opening of this book and overall its approach to teaching the 4 genre in one semester scenario of early creative writing. I, however, was a bit dismayed when I came to the example poems in the poetry section. The actual essays about literary terms and "how to's" on poetry were better - to me - than the actual selections.

This made me pause and I almost didn't finish reading the book. But, I decided to give the other genres a try. I'm glad I did. The exampl More...

Its examples of creative writing were not the most inspiring.