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Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
Author(s): Stephen Dunning, William Stafford

Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets. The 20 exercises, each covering different types or phases of poetry writing, as well as the authors' humor and nonacademic style, will appeal to experienced and novice poets of all ages.
203 pp. 1992. Grades 6–12. ISBN 0-8141-1848-8.
No. 18488 


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ISBN: 0-8141-1848-8
Grade Level(s): 6-12


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