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| Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan G. Wooldridge
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 43684
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0609800981
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.1
EAN: 9780609800980
ASIN: 0609800981
Publication Date: April 1, 1997
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Amazon.com Review
Poemcrazy is the poetic analog to Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird or Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, two classic works on how to forget that you "can't write" and just start the pen moving. Susan Wooldridge is a swimming instructor in the wide ocean of language, encouraging us to move ever farther from the shore, dive deep, and dance on the waves.
Product Description
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a poet and teacher who conducts workshops privately, as well as in the California Poets in the Schools program. Her exuberant, critically acclaimed teaching guide takes instructors, writers, and general readers into the very heart and intensity of life and the craft of expressing what one feels therefrom through the written word.
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Crazy about Poemcrazy March 20, 2008
I am completely crazy about this book and I don't normally read poetry books or books about writing poetry. But as a HS librarian I was trying to find something to help my English teachers who struggle every year to come up with lesson ideas for their poetry units. I struck gold with this book. I actually took six of Wooldridge's ideas and created lesson plans from them which I share with the teachers. For example, I cut up an old wildflower book, laminated the pictures, so that teachers could do an activity about naming plants and then writing poetry about the names. Though I dabble a little in writing my own poetry, I find that I always enjoy following little formulas to help unlock my creative juices. This book has several cute and fun formulas to assist the beginning poets. I highly recommend this book!
 Not for the beginner March 3, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is not a how to write a poem book. It is how to live your life so that maybe you can write a poem in 6 to 8 years.
One of my favorites! February 23, 2008
Get it! I dare you! This book is awesome! I learn something new every time I pick it up. I love the freedom it promotes in creativity. Buy it!
Discover the poet within December 9, 2007
Over the last few years I've begun to explore my own talent for poetry, and among the books I've read to help me is this one.
I've yet to try the exercises, but just reading the book gives me some food for thought.
Lots of ideas and techniques to try as the spirit moves you.
Love this - not just for poets only! October 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I confess that I've never been a poetry fan in the past. But thanks to this book, I may very well become one now! I only bought it because Teesha Moore (mixed-media artist, editor of the Art and Life 'zine, and creator of ArtFest) had raved about the author. So I gave this book a try. I'm so glad I did as it has really opened my eyes to what poetry is all about!
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