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Title: Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making by John Fox ISBN: 0-87477-882-4 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Helpful, good book
Comment: I"m still working my way through this one, but I'm finding it overall to be helpful... It's a good read, as well, engagingly written and leads me to want to try...
Rating: 5
Summary: Review of Poetic Medicine-- an English teacher's view
Comment: As a literature student, I stayed as far away from poetry as I could. It wasn't just that I preferred fiction Poetry made me feel "less than". I didn't get it, and all the terms were confusing.
Now, as an English teacher in a community college, I get a similar response from my own students, most of whom haven't read much poetry, find it difficult or overwhelming, and don't really see the point.
Even sadder, neither of us have believed we can write poetry. Instead, we have believed that poetry is something only a chosen few can do, something that requires mastering a certain form or stanzaic structure or tapping into the Muse at some deeper level of creativity than most of us are capable of.
It's too bad that only recently have we had John Fox's book Poetic Medicine to show us what poetry really is or can be, a means not only of discovery or creative expression, but also of deep emotional and spiritual healing.
As Rachel Naomi Remen points out in the Preface, "Poetry is simply speaking the truth...and one of the best kept secrets in this technologically oriented culture is that simply speaking the truth heals."
Fox helps us get at our truth and thus heal, via a range of exercises that explore such territory as personal relationships, loss, illness, our connection to the earth, love and pain between parent and child, and the use of traditional poetic tools to merge the spiritual and creative.
These exercises are hugged on either side by text which combines Fox's personal insights and experience, both as a poet and poetry therapist, with concrete examples from his own life and those of former workshop participants. Poems from friends and students, as well as pertinent quotes from other writers, complement and enrich Fox's words.
But these words are not just for those of us who already fancy ourselves poets or writers. One of the great characteristics of this and Fox's other book, Finding What You Didn't Lose, is that Fox, like Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones and Susan Woolridge in Poemcrazy, give us permission to use writing to discover our own selves.
As in his workshops, Fox's kindness, spiritual depth, and true belief that poetry can help us express the inexpressible come through loud and clear in his tone. He is someone who listens deeply, pays attention to his inner world, and by example, helps us do the same.
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetic Medicine is Good Medicine
Comment: John Fox's POETIC MEDICINE: The Healing Art of Poem-Making is a user friendly book. You will find yourself circling phrases, underlining sentences, writing in the margins, completing the expertly crafted exercises and drifting in thought and reflection over poetry that touches your soul. The format also includes a wonderful collection of side bars with poetry and quotes by a wide variety of poets, writers and philosophers.
John's choice of chapter titles are in themselves poetic: "The Fragile Bond" -- expressing poems of pain and love between parent and child, "Landscapes of Relationships -- reflecting on intimacy, marriage and longing, "When God Sighs" -- making poems about loss, illness and death.
As an instructor of a poetry course for seniors, I used many of the exercises in POETIC MEDICINE. Participants who often came hesitantly to the class, were delighted when they discovered they were able to express themselves in poetic form. We also worked with some of the tools and basic elements of poetry which are nicely presented in the book.
POETIC MEDICINE is a book one could choose to use individually too. Expressing personal sorrow and love, poem-making to heal societal wounds, or celebrating earth and nature are all avenues one can explore within its pages.
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD says in the Preface, "Poetry is simply speaking truth", and John's unique book helps us to find truth and to create poems from the heart. It is good medicine for, as Dr. Remen says, "simply speaking truth heals."
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Title: Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making (Inner Workbook.) by John Fox ISBN: 0874778093 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Writing as a Way of Healing : How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives by Louise DeSalvo ISBN: 0807072435 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 17 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Biblio-Poetry Therapy: The Interactive Process: A Handbook by Arleen M. Hynes ISBN: 0878390898 Publisher: North Star Associates Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Art of Dreaming: A Creativity Toolbox for Dreamwork by Marion Woodman, Jill, Ph.D. Mellick ISBN: 1573245747 Publisher: Conari Pr Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions by James W. Pennebaker ISBN: 1572302380 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 08 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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