Writing How and Why: Instructional Manual to Accompany Suki

This instructional manual includes short, accessible explanations of the philosophical concepts found in the novel, Suki. The various exercises and discussion plans can serve to prompt and assist inquiry around aesthetics and other related philosophical issues. Since poetry serves as the central part of the novel, the manual offers numerous additional poems as objects of aesthetic inquiry as well as activities that invite students to transform their thinking and dialogue into essays, poems and short stories.