Description
White Smoke Rhymes is a unique book of poetry that allows readers to participate. Barbara Culp, a former principal, teaches how to structure and formulate ideas when writing verse. She explains ways to select subjects from everyday items and events, feel the rhythm of words, and express specific ideas. By following her lead in each chapter, readers are able to stop, think, and interact by creating their own poetry.
Culp’s collection of adult poems, which are sometimes explicit, focuses on many of today’s issues in a serious yet frequently humorous manner. Each section opens with a brief description of the category of poems, such as those concerning social issues, sex and relationships, spirituality and prayer, family and friends, and extraordinary everyday occurrences. At the end of each section are prompts that guide the readers to the pleasure of writing.
The author has published this book with a philanthropic purpose. She hopes that others will submit poems that she will select to include in another book. All of the profits from this new publication will be donated to the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association. These two organizations were chosen because the author’s mother died of cancer and her son suffers from Kawasaki disease. With the help of other poets, she is establishing another method of funding research to more effectively treat and cure cancer and heart disease