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  • Haiku: How To Write It in Minutes

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Haiku: How To Write It in Minutes is the perfect guide for the would-be Haiku writer. This enduring Japanese form comes to life in poet and teacher Robert McDowell's crisp and inspiring poetry manual, one of several in his Forms of Poetry Series. Beginning with the case for writing poetry in traditional form, McDowell wastes no time introducing the reader to the specific requirements of Haiku. He ... Read more

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  • Poetry as Spiritual Practice

    Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions

    by Robert McDowell ...
    "[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." -- from the IntroductionPoetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry creates clarity, deepens and expands spiritual inquiry, and cultivates wisdom, compassion, self-confidence, patience, and love. In author Robert McDowell's ... Read more

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  • Sweet Wolf

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Robert McDowell's poems over the last 35 years are widely recognized as major achievements in reviving narrative and consistently striving to cre-ate, as poet and critic Chad Abushanab writes in his Introduction, "the song in the story". McDow-ell in poetry also embraces Emily Dickinson's call to engage "Internal difference/Where the mean-ings, are". McDowell's poems appear widely in magazines, ... Read more

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  • Quiet Money

    by Robert McDowell ...
    The poet’s first full-length collection, Quiet Money's New Edition consists almost exclusively of longer narrative poems, including the title poem about a bootlegger/pilot who flew the Atlantic solo before Charles Lindbergh. This piece is often cited as one of the most important poems of the 1980s and the movement to revive storytelling in verse. ... Read more

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  • The Diviners

    by Robert McDowell ...
    A book-length poem that brilliantly reinvents narrative poetry, The Diviners is a single poem divided into five chapters, each a different decade. McDowell relates the most crucial developments in each decade spanning from the 1950s through 1990s, of the shared lives of Al, Eleanor, and their son, Tom. The Diviners records in blank verse the family’s beginnings, their growth, their problems, their ... Read more

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  • Change Writer's Block to Writer's Stock You Can Take to the Bank: 10 Steps to Curing Writer’s Block Forever

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Mark Twain said, "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one." That's exactly what poet and teacher Robert McDowell does for readers of this terrific Guide to solving the problem of writer's block once and for all. He does this with ten easy steps and ... Read more

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  • Sonnets: How To Write Them in Minutes

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Sonnets are among the most admired and daunting poems in the English language. In his Sonnets: How To Write Them in Minutes, noted poet and teacher Robert McDowell flawlessly explains and demonstrates the characteristics of the English, Italian and Spenserian sonnets and provides excellent examples of each one. His insightful, playful exercises, or writing prompts, encourage reader/writer ... Read more

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  • Before I Pray: A Kevin Killgallen Mystery

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Before I Pray, the first book in the Kevin Killgallen Mystery Series, introduces a spiritual gumshoe with street smarts and sass still intact. Born of the traditions of Chandler, Hammett, Spillane, Sayers, Gardner and Leonard, Los Angeles P.I. Kevin Killgallen seeks to find in his torrid life of adventure, danger and self-destructive choices the seeds of a spiritual practice that can bring him ... Read more

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  • Emily & Virginia

    by Robert McDowell ...
    This is a coming-of-age novel in which Emily Dickinson & Virginia Woolf return to this world and join forces to protect & assist a young woman artist, Lily, as she grows into her full power in love & work. Artfully written to appeal to adults and younger readers of serious literary fiction, the story takes place almost entirely in Ashland, Oregon and features appearances by several of the leg ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Everything Writing Poetry Book

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  • Haiku Mind

    108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

    by Patricia Donegan ...
    A collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday lifeHaiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives.Here, the poet Patricia Donegan ... Read more

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