| Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet Volume 1 Contributor(s): Gallaher, Cynthia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1483571424 ISBN-13: 9781483571423 Publisher: Bookbaby OUR PRICE: $12.33 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Personal & Practical Guides |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frugal Poets' Guide to Life is part personal journey, part life-coaching for poets (or those who'd like to live like one), part creativity guide, and part reference, with a special section on the modern history of the Chicago poetry scene, including the birth of the poetry slam. In many ways, this book is an anti-MFA guide to being a poet - or any other type of creative person. As poet Robert Frost said, " To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." Some of Gallaher's more personal sections of the book trace dating a well-known underground comics artist - dinner at a Denny's restaurant with an Academy Award Best Actor -- seeing a UFO in central Wisconsin - a night when poet and men's movement icon Robert Bly was "tarred & feathered" at a poetry reading -- play rehearsals at David Mamet's Chicago theater featuring then-unknown actor William H. Macy - how she met her poet husband, Carlos -- reflections on Gallaher's family relative, artist and member of the Algonquin Round Table, Neysa McMein -- visits and stays at a variety of writers' colonies around the country -- and celebrating how friend Sandra Cisneros launched an international literary career starting with a little eight-poem chapbook at a humble bookstore in a Chicago Puerto Rican neighborhood. |
