Reviews

A Poet's Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie

arrines's review against another edition

Library book, had it too long ended up losing interest. Not bad if you own a copy to browse at your own pace

lgmaxwell722's review

2.0

This was a challenging book to get through. As a writer of poetry, I was excited to learn more about how to write stronger poems. I found A Poets Guide to be heavy on poetic terms which may make this a hard read for novice poets. I also didn't realize there were poems in the poetry sampler and what page which made poems hard to reference. This definitely feels like a college level text, one which would best be helped by additional explanations. I did find some of Kinzie's points helpful, but this may not be the first book I turn to when writing a poem.

patrick_'s review

3.0

Wavers between 2 and 3 stars.

Incredibly detailed and unnecessarily dense. About a third could be cut and it would still get the point across. Also, it would greatly benefit the book itself if this were an ebook, to readily cross reference terms or look up Kinzie's acerbic vocabulary.