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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. In short, pithy chapters, Burghauser guides the aspiring poet through the values, attitudes, and techniques required for a lifelong adventure in language. 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. Find a comfortable place to sit, open this book, and meet one of our most dynamic teachers of poetry.
About the author
Jeffrey Burghauser, "a master of highly structured, traditional forms of poetry" (Ivan Head, Quadrant) was born in 1980 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and was raised in nearby Springfield. Educated at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at the University of Leeds (UK), his poems and translations have appeared in many journals, including The Asses of Parnassus, Ek-stasis, Merion West, New English Review (where he's a Contributing Editor), Quadrant, and The Showbear Family Circus. He is the author of Real Poems (2019), Still Telling What is Told (2020), Understandings (2021), and Some of Their Tunes (2022).
