Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words By Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge ISBN: 9780609800980 ASIN: B002QJZ9K4 Published: 1997 Number of Pages: 210 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Broadway Books Description: In Poemcrazy, Susan Wooldridge invites us into a realm where poetry is accessible, where poems are moments of discovery that often arrive unexpectedly - in parking lots, at the grocery store, on walks - and make our ordinary lives extraordinary. A poet/teacher in the California Poets in the Schools program, Susan starts us off playing with language. First, she shows how to create "wordpools, " helping us see we're all immersed in an ocean of words we use but largely ignore. We learn to create images, begin to develop metaphor, and gradually move into "dream-sense" where we can explore who we are in poems that carry us to deeper levels within. Susan helps us find our own poems by sharing the stories of how she and others discover theirs. Through delightful and often amusing vignettes of her own life and experience as a writer, Susan shows some of the possibilities words and images create. In practice sessions throughout the book, Susan loosens us up with language and demonstrates how to craft poems using a poet's tools such as journal writing, imagery, comparison, exaggeration, awareness of detail, and playful juxtaposition. For fifteen years, Susan has held workshops with adults and children, including teachers in training and adults in recovery. She's learned that in a safe, free setting, surrounded by words, anyone can write poems - often very good ones. Urged on by Susan's contagious enthusiasm, her love of her craft, her generosity of spirit, we too can enter the realm where language becomes magical and write poems that express more than words can say.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number: 96002109

International Standard Book Number: 0609800981 (pbk.) :
   - Terms of availability: $13.00

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Wooldridge, Susan,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1946-

Title Statement
   - Title: Poemcrazy :
   - Remainder of title: freeing your life with words /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Susan G. Wooldridge.
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge.

Varying Form of Title
   - Title proper/short title: Freeing your life with words
   - Title proper/short title: Poem crazy

Edition Statement: 1st pbk. ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Three Rivers Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1997, c1996.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xiii, 210 p. ;
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.

General Note: Originally published in hardcover by Clarkson Potter in 1996.: Originally published: New York : Clarkson Potter, 1996.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Poetry
   - General subdivision: Authorship.