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  Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet within (Paperback) By (author) Kim Addonizio

  

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  Short Description for Ordinary GeniusInspired by the success of "The Poet's Companion," Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own journey. Chapters on gender, race, and class challenge readers to explore their vision more deeply.
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 07 December 2011
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides | Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780393334166 ISBN 10: 0393334163
  • Sales rank: 139,616

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Full description for Ordinary Genius

• Inspired by the gratifying success of Companion, Kim Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own creative subjects--love, loss, identity, community--are here, along with a heady variety of writing exercises (and innovative ways to use the Internet). Chapters on gender, race, and class challenge readers to explore their creative vision more deeply, Addonizio, hailed for her passionate, award-winning poetry, shares her breakthroughs and frustrations frankly, including samples of rejection slips. She offers not only encouragement but also a wealth of knowledge about form and structure, metaphor and rhythm, revision, and that elusive goal: publishing. "Poetry is not a means to an end," Addonizio maintains, "but a continuing engagement with being alive." Her generous guide is for beginners and experienced poets, for groups and in the classroom--indeed for anyone eager to glimpse the angel of poetry.