Andrei Condrescu
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J.C. Hallman on The Poetry Lesson by Andrei Condrescu and the practice of teaching writing @ Quarterly Conversation.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Poetry Lesson is an account of the initial three-hour meeting of an Introduction to Poetry Writing course, a session in which the near-to-retirement Codrescu pontificates to his students about the lives of poets, ruminates to himself about the life of poetry, and assigns each of his charges a poet to study as the semester moves forward. The book defies one unhealthy trend in the practice of the teaching of creative writing, another in the practice of literature—they’re related, and you should read this book and absorb its lessons as soon as possible.
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