{"product_id":"primer-for-poets-by-gregory-orr-9780393253924","title":"Primer for Poets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrimer for Poets and Readers of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing poems such as Theodore Roethke's \"My Papa's Waltz\" and Robert Hayden's \"Those Winter Sundays,\" the \u003cem\u003ePrimer\u003c\/em\u003e encourages young writers to approach their \"thresholds\"—those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into urgent and persuasive poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt provides the poet with more than a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold; the four forces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining); tactics of revision; ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry; and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forebears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464166228204,"sku":"9780393253924","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393253924-primer-for-poets.jpg?v=1775039343","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/primer-for-poets-by-gregory-orr-9780393253924","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}