{"product_id":"wingbeats-exercises-and-practice-in-poetry","title":"Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWingbeats: Exercises \u0026amp; Practice in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e is an exciting collection from poets who teach both in and outside academia. Fifty-eight poets in various stages of their careers have contributed sixty-one exercises ranging from quick and simple to involved and multi-layered. In seven chapters, ranging from \"Springboards to Imagination\" to \"Chancing the Accidental\" to \"Complicating the Poem,\" each exercise includes not only clear step-by-step instructions, but numerous poems that exemplify the successful completion of the exercise. \u003cem\u003eWingbeats\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen, includes exercises for working in pairs and\/or groups, for incorporating research and\/or the Internet, for writing outdoors, for creating a hands-on experience. Of course, traditional poetic techniques covering metaphor, persona, forms, and revision are also included. Wingbeats is destined to become a standard instructional book in every poet's library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Albuquerque poet and artist \u003cstrong\u003eScott Wiggerman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis the author of three books of poetry—\u003cem\u003eLeaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships\u003c\/em\u003e. Founding Editor of Dos Gatos Press, Scott has edited numerous poetry-related volumes, including \u003cem\u003eWingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e—nationally recognized collections on the craft of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Meischen\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eNopalito, Texas: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e (University of New Mexico Press, 2024) and \u003cem\u003eCaliche Road Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Lamar University Press, 2024). \u003cem\u003eAnyone's Son\u003c\/em\u003e, from 3: A Taos Press, won Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2020. A Pushcart honoree, with a personal essay in \u003cem\u003ePushcart Prize XLII,\u003c\/em\u003e David is cofounder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press. He lives in Albuquerque, NM with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince I'm morphing back into teaching mode, I thought I'd end my column with you all with a few new texts I find indispensable to teaching creative writing. I'll begin with a new book published by Dos Gatos Press called \u003cem\u003eWingbeats\u003c\/em\u003e which includes exercises from nearly 60 working poets. Some of my favorites, include the Three-Day Defamiliarization and Bruce Covey's Two Sides of the Same Coil: Google Sculpting and Automatism. I have contributed an exercise to the collection myself, an exercise on constraint that I've found successfull everywhere from New York City to Hong Kong (and speaking of Hong Kong, if you don't know about the first international MFA Program in Creative Writing, you should; I've been teaching in it and at Fairfield University's MFA Program and have found both programs unique in the kinds of students and professors they are attracting).\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eRavi Shankar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWingbeats\u003c\/em\u003e is a fabulous toolbox of innovative and practical ideas that literally every teacher of poetry workshops and at every level, from elementary poets-in-the-schools through the graduate MFA, will find indispensable. Covering a vast range from image to sound to form, the exercises are all concrete and clearly presented—a marvelous way to mine the imaginations and experiences of today's most dynamic poets. Invaluable!\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eCole Swensen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI opened \u003cem\u003eWingbeats\u003c\/em\u003e—and fell in headfirst, caught in the feathers of the creative impulse. Wingbeats proves that poetry matters, that writing is an experimental discovery process, that there are many avenues to success, that writing poems is a gift we can all claim. The wealth of enabling nudges by the poets of \u003cem\u003eWingbeats\u003c\/em\u003e—who share their energy, wisdom, and examples—opens the door wide to our creative Selves. No teacher, no aspiring poet, should be without the gentle guidance of this book. \"  - \u003cstrong\u003eGabriele Rico\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526378115347,"sku":"9780984039906","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9780984039906ita.jpg?v=1785852132","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/wingbeats-exercises-and-practice-in-poetry","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}