By John Drury ISBN 0-89879-443-9; $18.99; 224 pages; Hardcover Part I: Preparing-Developing your poetic sensitivity, to see the world as only you can. Beginnings Reading Senses Knowing and Not Knowing Physical Education Spiritual Exercises Part II: Language-Learning the fundamental tools of poetry and using them effectively. Words Naming Etymology Grammar and Punctuation Allusions Pure and Impure Poems Part III: Sight-Refining sight and insight to make your poetry come alive within the mind's eye...and the heart's eye, too. Image Metaphor Symbols,Etc. Vision Part IV: Sound-Sensitizing yourself to the music of words- both singly and in combination. Alliteration Assonance Rhyme Sound Effects Part V: Movememnt-Developing the rhythmic qualities that make poems sing...and shout, march, croon, and whisper. Meter Free Verse Prose Iambics Accentual Meter Syllabics Pacing Part VI: Shaping-Understanding and using the basic units of which poems are made. Lines Sentences Stanzas Repetition and Variation Visual Shape Titles Letters Form and Content Part VII: Patterns & Traditions-Taking Advantage of the full array of poetic forms. Ballad Epigrams Ghazal Haiku Ode Pantoum Sapphics Sequences and Long Poems Sestina Song Sonnet Villanelle Other "Fixed Forms" Summary of Forms Part VIII: Voice-Becoming aware of the fine nuances of how the words are said and connected, revealing each poem's implied speaker and "stance." Dialogue, Drama, and Conversation Dramatic Monologue Perspective and Point-of-View Questions Tone Understatement Part IX: Sources of Inspiration-Opening up to all the potential sources of poetry-both all around you, and within, you. Borrowings Responses Research Journals Dream Memory Thinking Emotion Love Opposites Chance Imagination Part X: Things to Write About-Transforming what's general, the foggy abstract, into the specific-atime, a place, a living situation. Subjects Stories People Occasions Place Modern Life Animals and Plants Objects Part XI: Other Arts, Other Influences-Appreciating and drawing inspiration from the interrelationship among all the arts and sciences: everything that's vividly human. Translation Myths and Fairy Tales Painting and Scultpure Photographs History and Politics Science Part XII: Finishing-Bringing each poem to successful completion Revision Failure, Irritations, and Difficulties Mistakes Omissions Endings Appendix:Submitting Poems-Another Exercise Index Index to Exercises