How to Write Poetry (Sparknotes)

By Diane Mehta

Book Overview

The How to Write series aims to give students a recipe of sorts for creating excellent creative and academic prose and poetry. Each book is constructed as a set of instructions that are meant to illuminate the writing process, eliminating the mystery that so many other books seem to celebrate. Our belief is that writing well is a skill all students can learn, if they have the right guidance along the way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1411423445
• ISBN13: 9781411423442
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Sparknotes
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very handy guide that poets of all skill level and talent should find helpful.

This slim volume is a nice little primer to the world of poetry, as well as a handy guide if you're looking for a bit of inspiration. It's organized extremely well, to the extent that if I taught a beginner creative writing course, this book would be a required text. But that's not to say poets with decades of experience can't or won't find it useful. I suggest anyone who likes writing (or even reading) poetry... get this book