{"product_id":"9781936747276","title":"The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a life. Revealing, hilarious, and peppered with sly takes on the ins and outs of contemporary American poetry (chapters include \"The Silence of the Iambs,\" \"The Revisionarium, Ask Dr. Frankenpoem,\" and \"The Periodic Table of Poetic Elements\"), Jeffrey Skinner offers advice, candor, and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevision is the process a poem endures to become its best self.\u003cbr\u003eOr, if you are the poet, you are the process a poem endures to become its best self.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndures \u003ci\u003ebecause a first draft, like all other objects in the universe, has inertia and would prefer to stay where it is. The poet must not collaborate.\u003cbr\u003eBest\u003c\/i\u003e self \u003ci\u003ebecause the poem is more like a person than a thing, and does not strenuously object to personification.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYo, poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut let's not get carried away. It's your poem and you can treat it as you wish; sweet talk it; push it around if that's what it takes. Alfred Hitchcock notoriously said of the actors in his movies, \"They are cattle.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Skinner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eSalt Water Amnesia\u003c\/i\u003e (Ausable Press, 2005). His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and his work has earned awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Howard Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051445764336,"sku":"9781936747276","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936747276_p0.jpg?v=1763660111","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936747276","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}