Streams: Life Secrets for Writing Poems and Songs (The Sandra Hochman Collection)
Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's treatise on poetry and songwriting, Streams.
First published by Prentice-Hall in 1978, Hochman's approach to teaching is just as unconventional and revelatory today as it was forty years ago.
From the Introduction by Hochman: This is a personal book that I hope will be like a friend. In a simple way I want to tell you some thoughts that I have about writing poetry and songs, and share with you some warm-up exercises for writing that can be used to limber up the mind the same way that dancers limber before a performance. Writing has always been for me a necessary experience― something that I feel compelled to do. If that feeling of wanting to write is inside of you―what I call the Necessary Angel wanting to speak―that writing can be a part of your life experience the way it is part of mine.
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Book details
- Author
- Sandra Hochman
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 180
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Series
- The Sandra Hochman Collection
- Subjects
- Language Arts & Disciplines › Writing
- Topics
- poetry writing · songwriting · creative writing · writing exercises · literary criticism · poetry
- ISBN-13
- 9781683365327 (Hardcover)9781683365310 (Paperback)
About the author
SANDRA HOCHMAN is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet and the author of six volumes of poetry, six novels, and two nonfiction books, with four additional literary works from Turner Publishing.
Hochman’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she served as a columnist for Harper’s Bazaar. She also directed the 1973 documentary Year of the Woman.
When she’s not writing, Hochman ran the foundation You're an Artist Too at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, teaching poetry and songwriting to children ages 7–12 for fifteen years, and collaborated on musical productions in New York.