Description: This beginner's guide to writing poetry leads teachers and writers through exercises with the aim of freeing the "coyote spirit" within--that inner trickster of Native American lore with a wily imagination and a poetic sensibility. The g...
Synopsis This beginner's guide to writing poetry leads teachers and writers through exercises with the aim of freeing the "coyote spirit" within--that inner trickster of Native American lore with a wily imagination and a poetic sensibility. The games and advice here seek to free the imagination. Throughout, Wooldridge shares samples of many favorite poets, including Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, and others.