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- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
10 comments:
Have you seen Bradley Paul's book, "The Obvious?" It's the best thing I've read in ages -- maybe ever. Students love it, and the media can't seem to get enough of him.
I'll have to check into that. Bradley Paul? News to me....
Chris Ransick (Colorado) is using David Citino's book The Eye of the Poet in our workshop. It's not bad for beginners.
I like The Practice of Poetry by Twitchell and Behn for its great variety of excercises.
The Practice of Poetry is gold.
Contemporary American Poetry edited by A. Poulin, Jr. and Michael Waters is amazing. Also look at: The Making of a Poem edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland.
I like The Practice of Poetry too. Also The Poet's Companion by Addonizio and Laux. Another that feels informal and directed toward beginning writers is How to Build a Long-Lasting Fire Writing Poems from your Life (Carol Morrison).
Congrats. xox Will you be teaching in TN or elsewhere?
TN.
Speaking from an undergraduate's perspective with no previous exposure to poetry instruction before encountering these 2 volumes in an intro to creative writing class and poetry writing class, I whole-heartedly echo those who've recommened Practive of Poetry and Poet's Companion. I find myself returning to both of these books whenever I feel stuck or otherwise uninpired and they never fail to re-energize my muse.
Additionally, one of my very favorite writing exercises of all time is in POP, that 10 minute spill by Rita Dove. I've used it numerous times myself and recommended it to many of my writer friends and the result is always, at the very the least, a seed for a poem; but often, a full blown poem spills out. Might drag that exercise out today and see what it gives me.
American Poetry: The Next Generation, edited by Jim Daniels and Gerald Costanzo. Great book to teach young kids.
Eff poetry! Teach comic books.
JK.
Love you Paul!
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