Jeffrey Skinner

The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets

A Self-Help Memoir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Everything you wanted to know about being a moderately successful poet, but were too tired to ask.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sarabande Books
• Seitenzahl: 225
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781936747276
• ISBN-10: 1936747278
• Artikelnr.: 34395492

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Skinner is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Salt Water Amnesia (Ausable Press, 2005), and two anthologies of poems, Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance; and Passing the Word: Poets and Their Mentors. Poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, BOMB, and The Paris Review, and his poems, plays and stories have gathered grants, fellowships, and awards from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

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