Writing Toward Home

by Heard, Georgia

• ISBN13: 9780435081249
• ISBN10: 0435081241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-16
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

[This] is a book for the writer hidden or not so hidden in us all...It is a book for any age, to be read in little bits or all at once, and to be reread regularly. - Inland Here is a personal and compassionate book for everyone writers, poets, teachers, lovers of life, and especially those seeking to find their writing voices again or for the first time. It is an autobiographical travelogue moving from a volcano in Hawaii to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and places in between, with writing at its heart. Writing Toward Home offers practical advice on overcoming some of the obstacles writers of all ages face: writer's block, fear of rejection, confronting silencing critics in your head, finding the time to write. Each short chapter speaks to the larger truths about writing and how to truly live the writer's life: how to become more of a risk taker, how to excavate the past as a source, and how to become an acute observer of the world. Writing Toward Home is a book that will remind you-and help you remind your students-that the true source of writing is the creative self. In this fast culture when most people have so little time to do anything but menial tasks, it will jumpstart you, it will awaken to you the journey within, it will make you want to write.

Author Biography

An acclaimed poet and writer, GEORGIA HEARD is the author of Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way (Heinemann, 1995), For the Good of the Earth and Sun: Teaching Poetry (Heinemann, 1989), and Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky, a book of poetry for young children. She has also published numerous essays on poetry and writing, and her poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals. She speaks to thousands of people every year at conferences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and also travels extensively as a writing consultant and poet-in-residence for schools and universities. Heinemann has also produced The Words of True Poems (1998), an audiotape on which Heard reads a selection of her favorite poems, prefacing each poem with a brief introductory comment on its uses in the classroom. Ms. Heard's work has appeared in numerous magazines and professional journals and she has been interviewed on National Public Radio's "P

Table of Contents

Raven Man: The Journey Out of Silence<BR>

A Conversation with Yourself<BR>

Finding Your Way Home 4 . Querencia<BR>

Poetry Inside All of Us<BR>

Where Does Writing Hide for You?<BR>

I Could Not Tell<BR>

An Angel on Your Shoulder 9 . Feng Shui 10 . Doing What We Have to Do<BR>

Time-Worlds<BR>

Keep the Channel Open<BR>

I'm Not in the Military<BR>

The Rumble Beneath Your Feet<BR>

The Education of the Eye: Staring<BR>

Don't Try and Avoid the Rocks<BR>

Let Writing Lead the Way<BR>

The Intent, Not the Recipe<BR>

For the Sake of a Single Poem<BR>

Incarnadine Seas<BR>

Everything Including the Kitchen Sink<BR>

Writing Is like Making Tortillas<BR>

Picking Up a Stone<BR>

Digging in the Earth<BR>

Fall in Love at Least Three Times a Day<BR>

From an Onion to My Grandmother<BR>

The Fire Within: Writing from Anger<BR>

Ten Observations a Day<BR>

Layers<BR>

First Memory<BR>

Rivers of Memory<BR>

The Full Picture<BR>

Visual Archaeology<BR>

Layers of History<BR>

Gannon Hill<BR>

Stones and Sorrows<BR>

Listening to the Corn<BR>

In That Time<BR>

Writing from Behind the Scenes<BR>

The Family at the Next Booth<BR>

Back from the Mountains, a Yellow Handrail<BR>

Whispering into the Air<BR>

Ancestors<BR>

Synchronicity: Connecting the World<BR>

Dreams<BR>

Song to a Fallen Chestnut: Odes<BR>

Found Writing<BR>

Prayers: Words with Winged Feet<BR>

Walk<BR>

Lessons from Art<BR>

Blind Contour Drawing: Revision<BR>

Tapping into Words