Send in the Poets

In this work, you will find pointed suggestions about letting your imagination run wild and, we hope, inspiration to take up your pen or start up your computer and begin to write (or at least) begin to read poetry. Either is a journey of acceptance and expression. Be ready to express both your inner thoughts, and your external experiences.

If you have no desire to write, then perhaps this book will point you to new ways of enjoying what you read. You may use this work to open up avenues in your subconscious. Avenues that may intrigue you into internalizing new thoughts about poetry and other adventures of mind stimulation. An introduction to this mental magic is found at the beginning of each chapter.

Explicit goals are stated for each chapter with examples, exercises, and information on how to accomplish said goals. Poetry examples and comparatives are explained and presented in each chapter.

Two working exercises (worksheets) are found in each chapter, total of twenty explicit workpages. Additionally, at the conclusion of each chapter, you will find short studies of poetry methodology.

Throughout this work, the author expresses a desire to influence the reader to think. If you follow the instructions and/or exercises in this book, you will think. There can be no escape.

Read the mind opening words and exercises that follow and be prepared to find that the mind can readily be opened by experiencing this unique and refreshing contemporary approach to poetry.