The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way

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Macmillan, Jan 29, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 241 pages
For more than fifteen years Rosemary Daniell has led Zona Rosa, a creative writing workshop for women [and now men], ranging in age from 16 to 90 and from all walks of life, in Savannah, Georgia. For a dozen years before that, she inspired kids - from reluctant high school jocks to barefoot fourth graders, in schools from Appalachia to a Mormon town in Wyoming - to write their own poems. She also learned lessons in life and further developed her techniques while teaching.
 

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ONE The Lady Who Spilled Poetry
1
TWO How I Wrote My Heart Out
41
THREE Writing in the Pink Zone or How I
65
FOUR The Goddesses of Excess Other Tales
89
FIVE How to Be a Belle without Crossing
115
SIX SelfSabotage or the Anna Quindlen
145
Was a Doorway Filled with Azaleas
173
APPENDIX A Exorcises from Zona Rosa
203
APPENDIX B Further Notes from Zona Rosa
213
APPENDIX C And Even a Few Recipes
233
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Rosemary Daniell is the founder and leader of Zona Rosa, a series of creative life-changing writing workshops attended by thousands of women (and the occasional men) over the past twenty-five years. She is the author of The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself, Fatal Flowers, Sleeping with Soldiers, among other works of poetry and prose. She has appeared on many national television and radio shows, has been featured in People and Southern Living, and speaks at writers' conferences around the country. Her awards include the 1999 Palimpsest Prize and two NEA Fellowships. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.

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