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A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry Food & drink 'Skilfully writtenA Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Using such poems as Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," the Primer encourages young writers to approach their "thresholds" those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into