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The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir
by Skinner, Jeffrey | PB | Good
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- ISBN
- 9781936747276
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & Disciplines, Humor
- Publication Name
- 6. 5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets : a Self-Help Memoir
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books, Incorporated
- Subject
- Literary, Composition & Creative Writing, Form / Essays
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Series
- The Writer's Studio Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 9.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 225 Pages
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A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a life. Revealing, hilarious, and peppered with sly takes on the ins and outs of contemporary American poetry (chapters include "The Silence of the Iambs," "The Revisionarium, Ask Dr. Frankenpoem," and "The Periodic Table of Poetic Elements"), Jeffrey Skinner offers advice, candor, and wit.Revision is the process a poem endures to become its best self.Or, if you are the poet, you are the process a poem endures to become its best self.Endures because a first draft, like all other objects in the universe, has inertia and would prefer to stay where it is. The poet must not collaborate.Best self because the poem is more like a person than a thing, and does not strenuously object to personification.Yo, poem.But let's not get carried away. It's your poem and you can treat it as you wish; sweet talk it; push it around if that's what it takes. Alfred Hitchcock notoriously said of the actors in his movies, "They are cattle."Jeffrey Skinner is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Salt Water Amnesia (Ausable Press, 2005). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, BOMB, and The Paris Review, and his work has earned awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Howard Foundation.
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Sarabande Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1936747278
ISBN-13
9781936747276
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110881943
Product Key Features
Publication Name
6. 5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets : a Self-Help Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary, Composition & Creative Writing, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2012
Series
The Writer's Studio Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & Disciplines, Humor
Number of Pages
225 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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2011-040876
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Ps3569.K498z46 2012
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"Skinner's book takes advantage of its unusual format to convey fun, unexpected content. 'Love of poems by others x Resistance to influence = Style' sounds like something Susan Sontag might have written in her journals... After writing five full-length collections of his own poems, editing countless collections by others through his work as a founding publisher of the influential small press Sarabande Books... Skinner leaves no doubt that his love of the art is no infatuation. In addition to being a self-help, how-to and confession, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets is also--and perhaps most of all--a moving portrait of a marriage."--New York Times "Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving 'self-help memoir.' Skinner, more than a 'moderately successful' poet, has been published in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other prestigious journals. In this facetious yet spot-on directive, he points out the pitfalls of pursuing accolades in lieu of art." --Kelly Fordon, Boston Review "From the title of the book and chapters, from his half-goofy top ten lists and his letters to Dr. Frankenpoet section, I knew he was out to have some fun, but when Skinner writes about what poets must do and be prepared for, he sometimes exceeds the predictable answers." --Shenandoah "When he speaks about the craft of poetry, we are wise to listen." --Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal, "Skinner's book takes advantage of its unusual format to convey fun, unexpected content. 'Love of poems by others x Resistance to influence = Style' sounds like something Susan Sontag might have written in her journals... After writing five full-length collections of his own poems, editing countless collections by others through his work as a founding publisher of the influential small press Sarabande Books... Skinner leaves no doubt that his love of the art is no infatuation. In addition to being a self-help, how-to and confession, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets is also--and perhaps most of all--a moving portrait of a marriage."-- New York Times "Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving 'self-help memoir.' Skinner, more than a 'moderately successful' poet, has been published in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other prestigious journals. In this facetious yet spot-on directive, he points out the pitfalls of pursuing accolades in lieu of art." --Kelly Fordon, Boston Review "From the title of the book and chapters, from his half-goofy top ten lists and his letters to Dr. Frankenpoet section, I knew he was out to have some fun, but when Skinner writes about what poets must do and be prepared for, he sometimes exceeds the predictable answers." -- Shenandoah "When he speaks about the craft of poetry, we are wise to listen." --Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal, "Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving 'self-help memoir.' Skinner, more than a 'moderately successful' poet, has been published in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other prestigious journals. In this facetious yet spot-on directive, he points out the pitfalls of pursuing accolades in lieu of art." --Kelly Fordon, Boston Review "From the title of the book and chapters, from his half-goofy top ten lists and his letters to Dr. Frankenpoet section, I knew he was out to have some fun, but when Skinner writes about what poets must do and be prepared for, he sometimes exceeds the predictable answers." -- Shenandoah "When he speaks about the craft of poetry, we are wise to listen." --Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal, "Skinner's book takes advantage of its unusual format to convey fun, unexpected content. 'Love of poems by others x Resistance to influence = Style' sounds like something Susan Sontag might have written in her journals… After writing five full-length collections of his own poems, editing countless collections by others through his work as a founding publisher of the influential small press Sarabande Books… Skinner leaves no doubt that his love of the art is no infatuation. In addition to being a self-help, how-to and confession, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets is also-and perhaps most of all-a moving portrait of a marriage."- New York Times "Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving 'self-help memoir.' Skinner, more than a 'moderately successful' poet, has been published in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other prestigious journals. In this facetious yet spot-on directive, he points out the pitfalls of pursuing accolades in lieu of art." -Kelly Fordon, Boston Review "From the title of the book and chapters, from his half-goofy top ten lists and his letters to Dr. Frankenpoet section, I knew he was out to have some fun, but when Skinner writes about what poets must do and be prepared for, he sometimes exceeds the predictable answers." - Shenandoah "When he speaks about the craft of poetry, we are wise to listen." -Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal, "From the title of the book and chapters, from his half-goofy top ten lists and his letters to Dr. Frankenpoet section, I knew he was out to have some fun, but when Skinner writes about what poets must do and be prepared for, he sometimes exceeds the predictable answers." -- Shenandoah "When he speaks about the craft of poetry, we are wise to listen." --Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal
Table of Content
1. Family Guy: How empathy for Peter will make you a better poet 2. Top 20 poet complaints 3. Dr. Frankenpoet will answer your questions now 4. The pre-application to MFA programs save-your-time-and-money quiz 5. Silence of the Iambs, in which the poet is counseled to stand up to smarty-pants poetry bullies 6. Dr. Machiavelli, PhD offers his thoughts on the contemporary English department 7. Revision 101
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2012
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818/.5403 B
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23
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