What do a crazy person, a chemist, a lottery ticket seller, a tourist, a New Year’s date, Cervantes, a couple in crisis, some geeky teenagers and a ruined millionaire have in common? They’re all in this book! It contains more than 60 independent stories that are guaranteed to make you laugh, most of all, although some may make you shed a tear, and others just might make your hair stand on end.
Anyone can be a great storyteller! With colorful illustrations and imaginative writing prompts, this jam-packed, 128-page hardcover journal will inspire kids at all levels to write, write, WRITE! Kids don't have to fear the blank page again! Writing prompts are everywhere inside this colorful journal, where budding storytellers learn how to find the "who", "what", "where", "when", and "why" in all their stories! Thought-provoking quotes, title startes, and loads of other helpful hints make writing and rewriting fairy tales, fables, tall tales, myths, newspaper items, and otherkids of stories less intimidating--and more exciting--than ever before. Plus, it comes with a cool pen that attaches directly to the journal!
Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet's work... [a] landmark collection." From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. 'Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,' said Jorie Graham." Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished "Last Poems." Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living. Jim Harrison: Complete Poems confirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as Publishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius... a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.” NOTE:Jim Harrison: Complete Poems also appears as a three-volume box set. Print run limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. The box set retails for $85 and ISBN is 9781556596414.
The world sees you as just another human being...but you know what you really are. Now share your story here in these 150 lined pages. Write down your thoughts, your wishes, your dreams. Take the first step to making them come true!
Whether you plan to tell stories orally, in print or on video, you'll find techniques and tips on these pages to help you begin telling your stories. Interspersed with quotes from great storytellers in many genres and useful hints, the pages include space to make notes about your planned stories. A resource page offers some starting points for further learning and the appendix holds two exercises two help you hone your skills.Don't let your stories fade away untold. You'll make the world a better place if you share the tales inside you.
