Exercises for Poets Double Bloom Workbook

This slim, portable volume includes over 75 exercises to assist students at every step of the poetry writing process! From learning to read, listen, and respond, to generating poems and revising them,Double Bloom offers vivid, imaginative exercises that appeal to the writer in everyone. In addition,Double Bloom includes several activities designed specifically for groups-perfect for kicking off a poetry workshop or group lesson. The authorsrs" warm and relaxed introduction invites students to become active participants in the writing process, and the exercises that follow provide clear and exciting ways to do so. In the authorsrs" words, "We call this bookDouble Bloom because writing poetry-creating the ideas and language that constitute it-is often a surprising experience, much like a "double bloom" in the world of horticulture, where two flowers blossom on a single stem of camellias, marguerites or begoniashellip;"

Introduction	p. 7
Preface for Instructors and Writerrsquo;s Group Leaders	p. 10
Warm-Up
Reading, Listening, and Responding
The Writerrsquo;s Notebook	p. 16
Spinning Clicheacute;s into Gold	p. 17
An Image Album	p. 18
The Memory Storehouse	p. 19
A Harvest Basket	p. 21
The Poem Purchase	p. 22
The Thing Itself (or Me, Myself, and I)	p. 24
Senses Wake Up	p. 25
How Do You Mean ldquo;Cleaverdquo;?	p. 27
The Texture of Words I	p. 29
The Texture of Words II	p. 30
The Texture of Words III	p. 31
Kill This Poem!	p. 32
Constructing an Anthology	p. 33
Group Exercises
The Collaborative Poem	p. 38
The Cento	p. 40
The "Bad" Poem Exercise	p. 41
The Movie Maker	p. 42
The Prized Possession	p. 45
One-liners	p. 46
The Line Break as Pause	p. 48
Five Senses	p. 50
Writing Off the Music	p. 52
How Do You Mean "Cleave"? (Group Version)	p. 53
One-a-Day Poems (Teaching Variation)	p. 55
A Painting in Three Levels	p. 57
Writing Poems
Generate a Poem
Responding to Art	p. 61
Image Electricity	p. 63
The Prose Poem	p. 64
Who Will You Become?	p. 65
The "First"	p. 67
Writing a Portrait	p. 68
Eavesdropping on the Music	p. 69
The Epistle	p. 70
Mythology Forward	p. 71
Small Research Nature Poem	p. 72
The Poem You Canrsquo;t Forget	p. 74
Poem in Three Levels	p. 75
The Thing Poem	p. 76
The Found Poem	p. 77
The Poem Buyout	p. 79
Writing ldquo;Off the Subjectrdquo;	p. 81
Short-line Railroad	p. 83
The Cemetery Poem	p. 84
Conversation in a Long Line	p. 85
From the News	p. 87
Book/Cover	p. 88
Writing the Blues	p. 89
American Haiku	p. 90
Advanced Exercises
Five Senses	p. 94
Notes on a Pillow	p. 95
Lining Up Surrealism	p. 96
Spin-offs	p. 97
Everybody Wants Something	p. 99
Chants	p. 101
The American Ghazal	p. 102
The Free Verse Villanelle	p. 103
Blooming Personae	p. 104
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