{"product_id":"poetry-home-repair-manual-practical-advice-for-beginning-poets","title":"Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"No other poet seems better suited to represent the United States as its Laureate in this era than Ted Kooser, and \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Home Repair Manual\u003c\/i\u003e should enhance his grip on our slumbering Republic.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--Larry Woiwode, Poet Laureate of North Dakota, in \u003ci\u003eNorth Dakota Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuch more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend--a friend who is willing to share everything he's learned about the art he's spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Home Repair Manual\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets--aspiring or practicing--can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry's ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ted Kooser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793299079210,"sku":"9780803259782","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/poetry-home-repair-manual-practical-advice-for-beginning-poets-2437341.jpg?v=1762151428","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/poetry-home-repair-manual-practical-advice-for-beginning-poets","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}