Writing With Multiple Intelligences: Creative Opportunities for Teachers, Writers & Therapists
Author: Edna, Ph. D. Kovacs
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ISBN: 0936085436
Publisher: Blue Heron Pub (January, 2001)
Sales Rank: 656,825
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Getting over Writers' Block
If you have been occupied by other concerns and have failed to be informed of the newest teaching theories, plans and projects, Edna Kovacs uses her twenty-year teaching experiences to bring them together in a manageable and understandable way. For the teacher who stuck with finding a new method of getting kids to write poetry, for the writer suffering from writer's block or therapist searching for a way to open up their patients to themselves and others, Kovacs' new book offers a plethora of methods, opportunities and suggestions. Among such educational instruction and reports of experiments tried are strewn the poems of Edna Kovacs and her students. It is interesting that the book is organized around the seasons; a clue that she has some understanding of Oriental poetry. However, to credit Korea with linked poetry when it began in China and reached its heights in Japan seems rather amiss. Also, to quote from a tanka / waka by Izumi Shikibu (974?-1034) written in five lines and to call it a haiku (which only came to be written in the 1600s) suggests that another couple workshops need to be attended by this expert on poetry writing. Perhaps there is value in all this psycho-babble but you will have to tread carefully through the pitfalls.
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