An illuminating and invaluable guide for beginners wary of modern poetry, as well as for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft and write poems that expand their technical skills, excite their imaginations, and engage their deepest memories and concerns.
Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.
It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted to write. If you long to create poetry that is magical and moving, this is the book you've been looking for.
Here are chapters on the language and music of poetry, the art of revision, traditional and experimental techniques, and how to get your poetry started, perfected, and published. Not the least of the book's pleasures are model poems by many of the best contemporary poets, illuminating craft discussions, and the author's detailed suggestions for writing dozens of poems about your deepest and most passionate concerns.

In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop

Literature & Fiction

Kowit, Steve

History & Criticism

Tilbury House

*Over 90,000 copies sold*
Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft, expand their technical skills, and engage their deepest memories and concerns.This edition adds Steve Kowit’s famous essay on poetics “The Mystique of the Difficult Poem,” in which he argues stirringly and forcefully that a poem need not be obscure to be great.
Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.
It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted to write. If you long to create poetry that is magical and moving, this is the book you've been looking for.
Here are chapters on the language and music of poetry, the art of revision, traditional and experimental techniques, and how to get your poetry started, perfected, and published. Not the least of the book's pleasures are model poems by many of the best contemporary poets, illuminating craft discussions, and the author's detailed suggestions for writing dozens of poems about your deepest and most passionate concerns.

In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop

Steve Kowit's Lurid Confessions is his first full-length poetry collection,excellent poems of wit and insight.

Lurid Confessions

Poetry

Carpenter Pr

Passionate Journey: Poems & Drawings in the Erotic Mood

Okamura, Arthur

City Miner Books

Heart in utter confusion: Takes on the erotic poetry of India

Dog Ear Press

Forty contributors, including Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Gregory Corso, Jayne Cortez, Diane di Prima, Stephen Dobyns , Laurie Duesing, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edward Field, Allen Ginsberg, Alta, Judy Grahn, Jack Grapes, Jana Harris, David Kirby, Ron Koertge, Joanne Kyger, Dorianne Laux, Naomi Lazard, Gerald Locklin Antler, Phillip Lopate, Hank Malone, José Montoya, Harold Norse, Sharon Olds, Simon Ortiz, Dan Propper, Karen Snow, Gary Snyder, Austin Straus, Frank Bidart, Al Zolynas, Laurel Ann Bogen, LoVerne Brown, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, and Marion Cohen.

The Maverick Poets: An Anthology

Gorilla Pr

Poetry. Whether describing the Devil reciting poetry in Hell, the faith of uprooted mice, or a last encounter with a doomed friend, Steve Kowit's poetry has chosen, in the manner of certain Sufi tales, a disarmingly earthy presence. Rhapsodic and hilarious by turns, this poetry is as engaging and accessible as vivid prose. Steve Kowit is the author of several collections of poetry and IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND: THE POET'S PORTABLE WORKSHOP; he has also translated Pablo Neruda's INCITEMENT TO NIXONCIDE AND PRAISE FOR THE CHILEAN REVOLUTION and edited THE MAVERICK POETS anthology. The recipient of an NEA and other awards, he has published work in numerous anthologies and journals including The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker. He teaches at Southwestern College in Chula Vista.

The Dumbbell Nebula (California Poetry Series, 3)

Roundhouse Press

Kowit is one of the best-known poets in San Diego with an enormous following. The poems are based on the ancient amatory poems of India written in Sanskrit. Art--drawings, portraits, and sketches accompany the poems throughout the text.

The Gods of Rapture: Poems in the Erotic Mood

San Diego City Works Press

Steve Kowit's poetry has been described as a "memorable exhilaration, a singular concentration of language, and a flow of razor-sharp images springing irrepressibly from the author's humanity" (CHOICE). It is his humanity we celebrate in this, Steve's last collection. CHERISH: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS was receiving its final editorial touches by Steve when he passed away in April of 2015. Kowit--a poet, an editor, a teacher--was the 2007 winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for his collection THE FIRST NOBLE TRUTH and author of other books of poems, including LURID CONFESSIONS, THE DUMBBELL NEBULA, and The Gods of Rapture. He was also author of the influential creative writing workshop text In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop. "How fine to have in in our hands . . . the lucid, voluptuous, exuberant poems of Steve Kowit." --Dorianne Laux

Cherish: New and Selected Poems

United States

University of Tampa Press

An anthology of 82 poems from 11 collections, spanning 40 years, features some of Steve Kowit's best-known work and several previously uncollected gems..

Poems that Speak to Us: Selected Poems of Steve Kowit

Garden Oak Press

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