Ordinary Genius by Kim Addonizio

Inspired by the gratifying success of The Poet's Companion, Kim Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own creative journey. Poetry's time-honored subjects, love, loss, identity, community are here, along with a heady variety of writing exercises (and innovative ways to use the Internet). Chapters on gender, race, and class challenge readers to explore their creative vision more deeply.

Addonizio, hailed for her passionate, award-winning poetry, shares her breakthroughs and frustrations frankly, including samples of rejection slips. She offers not only encouragement but also a wealth of knowledge about form and structure, metaphor and rhythm, revision, and that elusive goal: publishing.

"Poetry is not a means to an end," Addonizio maintains, "but a continuing engagement with being alive." Her generous guide is for beginners and experienced poets, for groups and in the classroom, indeed for anyone eager to glimpse the angel of poetry.

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Fugitives After screwing an alien disguised as a skinny redhead, I was on the lam in a pickup truck that subsisted on matzoh ball soup. I drove up flights of stairs. On the 13th floor a floating eyeball was staring at a beautiful dwarf who, fleeing wind-whipped tears, plunged into the river of a cigar and disappeared.

[gawbcity]

@bobtheantman1 so cal ? really? & I was thinking totally east coast, (definitely not a southern belle) like New Jersey,

[bobtheantman1]

I adore Kim Addonizio, she's beautiful and epitomizes a southern California pathos---free, warm, graceful, breezy, joyous.

[arabiology]

she looks like a man, no wonder her husband divorced her.

[Seance]

I am in love with Kim Addonizio.

[ringu]

something tells me it's harder than that. i've read your poems--like jummy & rita--and they're great...but you must have been writing for years and years. but thanks. and i enjoy watching your other videos on YT.