Poetry: A Survivor's Guide has earned high praise from students,
teachers, and readers from around the globe for its playful sincerity
and idiosyncratic humor and for its approach to a subject both loved and
feared. Updated and expanded, including six new sections, the second
edition probes a range of strategies for inspiring students and aspiring
poets on the ways poetry relates to their own lives. These include the
delights and pitfalls of individual meditation, the complications of
identity and appropriation, and the uses and utility of poetry as a tool
of social change.
The second edition also includes a curated companion website for
teachers, students, and aspiring poets that features poetry examples,
writing prompts and exercises, and resources for publishing poetry.