"Explores the use of poetry as a tool for self-discovery and emotional healing."--

"We all hold the seed of something wonderful inside us that is just waiting for the right moment to bloom. In A poem grows inside you, the seed of an idea waits for the rhythm of the rainfall to awaken it, then takes root and begins to grow. This beautifully illustrated book is at once a celebration of the deep connection creatives have with their art and an acknowledgment of the courage it takes to share it. This book encourages readers to nurture...

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation...

An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form-from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass. Robert Hass-former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize-illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this sophisticated, graceful, and accessible volume of essays drawn...

In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and...

The Prelude', William Wordsworth?s masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, it finally receives the treatment it deserves. Inspired by his dear friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poem charts the development of the author?s mind, from childhood to Cambridge, London,...

This mixture of essays, interviews, and lesson plans will prove useful for first-time and veteran teachers, parents, MFA graduates and the like, with an interest in poetry's place in the lives of our younger citizens.