In The Heavy Lifting: A Boy\'s Guide to Writing Poetry , acclaimed poet and educator Jeffrey Burghauser not only makes a case for poetry-he makes a case for poetry\'s restoration to the prominence it once enjoyed among the manly arts.
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The Heavy Lifting is at once an instruction manual, a textbook, a manifesto, a piece of literary criticism, a polemic, a pep talk, and an anthology-a mélange recalling Ezra Pound\'s 1934 classic ABC of Reading .
In short, pithy chapters, Burghauser guides the aspiring poet through the values, attitudes, and techniques required for a lifelong adventure in language.
In The Heavy Lifting: A Boy\'s Guide to Writing Poetry , acclaimed poet and educator Jeffrey Burghauser not only makes a case for poetry-he makes a case for poetry\'s restoration to the prominence it once enjoyed among the manly arts
