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    In Lovely Blue: The Harp of Heaven: 25th Annual Border Voices Anthology
    In Lovely Blue: The Harp of Heaven: 25th Annual Border Voices Anthology
    In Lovely Blue: The Harp of Heaven: 25th Annual Border Voices Anthology
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    In Lovely Blue: The Harp of Heaven: 25th Annual Border Voices Anthology

    By Jack Webb

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    Give you -- and your child -- the beauty of the world.
    Thousands of students in the United States and Mexico have gone on to brilliant careers in the creative arts after attending Border Voices workshops. The secret to that success is distilled in this marvelously funny, and always insightful book.
    The book contains marvelous poems by students ranging in age from 8-18, as well as powerful pieces by professional poets and a writer of TV shows, essays and poetry (that's Jack Webb, the editor). And we mustn't forget Amy Roost, a woman celebrated for her long but ultimately successful search for a lost sister whom she'd never met.
    If you want to have fun while learning the simple secrets of great writing, this is where to look.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781543933703
    In Lovely Blue: The Harp of Heaven: 25th Annual Border Voices Anthology

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      In Lovely Blue - Jack Webb

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      In Lovely Blue: The Harp of Heaven

      By Jack Webb, founder-director

      Border Voices Poetry Project

      Why have I spent 25 years promoting poetry both in San Diego, and around the nation?

      Dana Gioia asked me that. He’s the current poet laureate of California, as well as the former head of the National Endowment for the Arts. He’d just told a big audience of San Diego community leaders that I am the face and voice of poetry in San Diego.

      Ilya Kaminsky asked me the same thing. He is a brilliant poet and professor of creative writing at SDSU. He and the director of the MFA program, Sandra Alcosser, had informed me, with stunned pride, that hundreds of students have come into their program because they had been enticed into poetry by what they learned in Border Voices.

      My answer to both of these brilliant men?

      Because I believe in it.

      And I do.

      Learn the secrets of poetry and you will write words that illuminate both you, and others. Words that will send a thrill down the spine, that will bring the world alive.

      Learn the secrets of poetry and you will look up at clouds skidding across the horizon, and – in that lovely blue – hear the Harps of Heaven. And you will sing with them.

      Immediately following this brief note, you will find a letter to my daughter Katie. She’d asked me how I write poems. Her son Elijah wanted to know why all my poems are so beautiful. He also wanted to know how the German super-genius Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) could write about ANYTHING, anything at all – war and peace, the agony of Christ, Holderlin’s true love (the lady Diotima) – and invest it with incredible beauty and insight.

      I’d told Eli that Holderlin was a true super-genius, the greatest poet of the last 500 years. Not just one of those common geniuses you see running around – he was so much more!

      Holderlin created entirely new ways of putting words together. In 10 years of intense and terrifyingly hard work he created poems that have inspired all the great poets ever since. Then he went mad, and was left alone in a tower by a rich farmer who took pity on him.

      Twenty years after he arrived in the tower, a few early fans made the pilgrimage to see him. Each of them received a small poem, just a few sentences, as beautiful as anything he’d ever written.

      What was his secret?

      Here’s what I told Elijah, and Katie, when they asked (you can find two of my poems further on in this book, as well as a poem by Elijah. See what you

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