Title Spreading the word : poetry and the survival of community in America / Ross Talarico

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents 1. Harmony -- 2. The Democracy of Language -- 3. Deliteracy -- 4. The Role of the Poet -- 5. Tennis, Poetry, and All Things Sweaty and Beautiful -- 6. The Language of a New America Summary In 1985 poet Ross Talarico began a grassroots program in creative expression in Rochester, New York. As the program came together, so did the community--young and old, poor and privileged, even those who could not read or write but wanted to tell their stories. This book is a testimony to the poetry that experience produced. An exhilarating account of a successful experiment in promoting community self-expression, Spreading the Word interweaves the participants' stories with Talarico's own life, his struggle as a poet, and the drama of his workshops. The book will be both a resource and an inspiration for teachers of writing, writers, and those who simply wish to learn to write. Drawing on his workshops in Rochester, Talarico describes a unique approach for eliciting poetry from people of many ages and backgrounds--particularly underpriviledged urban kids and the elderly. The process--from dialogue to self-expression to publication to public event--illuminates the urgency and meaning of releasing the spirit captured in each man and woman and child's experience. "Some people say that Ross Talarico has done the impossible," the Today Show remarked of his success in Rochester; and with this book Talarico offers the same opportunity to others. Teachers, community leaders, parents, and children will be able to follow his practical, hands-on approach to encouraging self-expression in diverse, even unlikely, settings. They will see here how poetry is indeed relevant, ever more crucial to our identity as the culture evolves--how it is, finally, the place where the inarticulate can come to speak for themselves Analysis English language Composition (Arts) New York (State) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Talarico, Ross, 1945- -- Authorship SUBJECT Talarico, Ross, 1945- fast Subject Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester Community life -- New York (State) -- Rochester Literature and society -- United States Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States Poetry -- Authorship. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric Authorship Community life Creative writing -- Study and teaching Intellectual life Literature and society Poetry -- Authorship Poetry -- Social aspects SUBJECT Rochester (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life Subject New York (State) -- Rochester United States Form Electronic book LC no. 94036497 ISBN 9780822398165 0822398168

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