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Comprehensive in its treatment of poetry and fiction, this book offers the features that students most often request, including concise definitions of basic terms of poetry and short fiction, focused discussion of craft, exciting literary models, and engaging hands-on exercises. It is an accessible guide that renders the material of introductory creative-writing courses more readily engaging, so that beginning writers can see greater progress reflected in their poems and short stories over the course of a single semester.\u003c\/p\u003e Features: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e* Includes 60 poems and 9 complete stories, ranging from classic to contemporary\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e* Each chapter includes craft-focused discussion questions and writing prompts and exercises\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e* Includes appendices on workshopping poetry and fiction and on resources for writers seeking publication\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52099441688849,"sku":"NIN9781554814947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781554814947.jpg?v=1757085966"},{"product_id":"go-on-book-ethel-rackin-9781602357969","title":"Go On","description":"\u003cp\u003eEthel Rackin's \u003cem\u003eGo On \u003c\/em\u003eimmediately calls to mind Beckett's 'in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on, ' and out of that silence come these brief and powerful poems written 'after centuries of loss\/ in the last century.' A visionary, Rackin's preoccupations are seeing and its impossibility. Time is both full of historical weight and the mysterious present, 'as if the before and after had frozen\/ and couldn't be tracked down.' Quiet, sure, possessed of a subtle, winning tenderness, and often most at home in the quotidian, the poems dart among truths that startle: 'before I could tell another's lie I was lying in it, ' and 'The grief you imagine\/ is easier than the grief you actually\/ have to live through.' These are poems of our time. One marvels at their existence. Carefully, slowly, they carve a path of just how we might go on.--\u003cem\u003eGillian Conoley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecognition is the portal to entity and to something very like godliness. The gentle imperatives of Ethel Rackin's new poems urge us to sustain a longing for 'the face of recognition' and for the resulting entities--all of them wild, all of them free--that fulfill it. --\u003cem\u003eDonald Revell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI am deeply moved by Ethel Rackin's lyric poems. They continue the great tradition started in China on the one hand and Africa on the other, come together now in Pennsylvania at Rackin's kitchen table. --\u003cem\u003eGerald Stern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGo On\u003c\/em\u003e directs us to notice and to know the world with perfect vulnerability. The delights and difficulties trickling through the chinks of ordinary time swirl through these deceptively simple verses that, like Blake's, hum with the certainty of divine presence always near us but nearly always beyond comprehension. Rackin's expert development of the lyric's oldest properties carries forth the unpredictable relationship between human awareness and the visible world through 'elemental shifts' of spare, simple words that glimpse the unseen and touch its consciousness. 'It's not supposed to make sense, ' these graceful poems inform us, but our responsibility lies in baring ourselves emotionally and intellectually to others and the world as we make and find it. Only in this state of exposure, 'shirt open\/ chest full of birds, ' do we gather the often fleeting, sometimes lasting rewards of hope and faith. --Elizabeth Savage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthel Rackin is the author of a previous collection of poems, The Forever Notes, published by Parlor Press in 2013. Her poems, book reviews, and collaborations have appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, Jacket2, Kenyon Review, Verse Daily, and Volt. She earned her MFA from Bard College and her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. 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Many are song-like, repeating the things that are most important to them over and over to make them stay: You and the trees\/ Trees and the night around you. Others tell small stories, utterly clear line by line but elusive, almost elegiac, in their slides of feeling and shifts of thought. They feel like a life you must have lived but can't quite remember, like a dream you try to tell even as it fades behind you. Ethel Rackin's wistful and whimsical Notes and Pictures and Songs are brief glances and glancing blows, each so understated and tantalizing that it seems to call for another and another, until without quite realizing it you've read the book straight through. -JAMES RICHARDSON Plato wrote in the Timaeus of time as the moving image of eternity. In Ethel Rackin's THE FOREVER NOTES each of these terms finds resonance: the fleeting objects of the world are moving, and persons moved; her lyric syntax builds pictures that dissolve into song and then turn back to image again; the eternal endures in its endless transformations. Leaves are for changing she observes-an insight just as true of the leaves of her book. -SUSAN STEWART Ethel Rackin's lyrical sound bites have a mysterious hold. In them, the visual and the aural are inextricably linked. Adrift in internal music, is how she puts it. Her notes are notations that produce pictures of the real world, but those notes also create songs. Each object has a title, says Rackin; her poems demonstrate that each object has musical depth, too. The result is beautiful: A song that reaches as far as an eye can see. -DAVID TRINIDAD Everyone should read this book because it is so effective and unique. The book will make you ache, whether or not you're an artist. It will intrigue you. Its objects-trees, chocolate, wheelbarrows, a ship on the sea, nightgowns, rug samples, a garden, a femur bone, cookies, a blind bird, curbs, scotch - have a relationship with the speaker and with us that is personal, moving, isolated, lonely, and longing. In a shattered world we recognize as very close to ours and also see as an exotic destination, there is a song overall as if we were hearing it in a woods, or on the ocean, or in a city, hearing it from somewhere and compelled to find it. It's this new, essential poet. -ARTHUR VOGELSANG ETHEL RACKIN was born in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Court Green, Evergreen Review, Poetry East, Volt, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Bard College and her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. She has taught at Penn State Brandywine, Haverford College, and Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania, where she is currently an assistant professor.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52657394254097,"sku":"NLS9781602353701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52752788324625,"sku":"NIN9781602353701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781602353701.jpg?v=1762228542"},{"product_id":"in-time-book-ethel-rackin-9781944585860","title":"In Time","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52737259012369,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52737259536657,"sku":"NIN9781944585860","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-ethel-rackin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}