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With wide-ranging examples from classic and contemporary poets, Dorianne Laux demystifies the magic of language that makes great poetry and offers generative exercises to harness that magic. She explores the syllable and the line, the use of form, poetic responses to contemporary events and personal experiences, the imaginative leap, and the power of a distinct voice. As she writes in the introduction, \"My instrument is the immensity of language.... There are eighty-eight keys on a piano, six hundred thousand words in the English language. The patterns, sequences, and permutations of both are endless. For me, language is another kind of music.... I practice poetry. 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Each section opens with a poem and includes prompts that invite the reader to engage more deeply with: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePortals of Inheritance: Ancestral Teachings, Possible Futures \u003c\/b\u003eopens portals to messages from ancestors and for survival\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLanguages of Liberation, Disruption, and Magic\u003c\/b\u003e explores how poetry and spellcasting allow us to enter into and harness language in active, heightened ways that both reflect reality and manifest alternatives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInvoking Radical Imagination\u003c\/b\u003e leans into the incantatory possibilities of poetry as prayer and poetry as enchantment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSacred Practices: Rituals of Repair and Revision\u003c\/b\u003e explores writing as ritual, ritual as practice, and practice as doing, drawing connections between the creative practices of poetry and spellwork.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLighting Fires, Breaking Chains \u003c\/b\u003efocuses on the explicitly magical and political nature of poetry as spellcasting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eElemental Ecologies, Spiritual Technologies \u003c\/b\u003ewrestles with concepts of home, colonization, and belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth poetry and occult studies have been historically dominated by white, cishet writers; here, Poetry as Spellcasting reclaims the centrality of queer and BIPOC voices in poetry, magic, and liberatory spellwork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tamiko Beyer,Destiny Hemphill,Lisbeth White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Atlantic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623177195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTamiko Beyer is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eLast Days\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Come Elemental\u003c\/i\u003e. 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A founding faculty member of Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program, she lives in Richmond, California.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Kim Addonizio \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47283384647837,"sku":"9780393316544","price":35.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_401ef1a0-3cff-4c9c-88cb-c0d65585e17f.jpg?v=1759963954"},{"product_id":"robert-frost-sixteen-poems-to-learn-by-heart-9781598537703","title":"Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eCelebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems--with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring a public reading Robert Frost was once asked why he so frequently recited his poems from memory. 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It has to face something that a good cop would call evidence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of these essays appeared, at times in different form, in the following publications: \u003cem\u003eSPIN\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlice, Poets \u0026amp; Writers, Ploughshares Blog, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, \u0026amp; FENCE.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Klein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Galileo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.00w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780913123546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKlein, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Klein is the author of six books of poetry and a five-time finalist and two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. He's also the author of two books of autobiography and his work has appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Tin House, FENCE, and many other publications. 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