The path of amateurs. Book on poetry and prose

Is it possible to train writing? Is it possible to make a full -fledged poet or prose writer out of ordinary, far from literature? Or is the book not about that at all? And do not study, but if you are not given, then you should not try?
This book has five authors. Four live in Russia and Ukraine: Renata Yuryev in the Novosibirsk region, Yuri Goncharenko - in the Dnieper, Sergey Cardo and Leonid Kuznetsov in Moscow. Unfortunately, the fifth author - Igor Kosarkin - is no longer with us. But it was he who was the inspirer of the project, the initiator of its creation and wrote some of its chapters. And this not quite ordinary book - his brainchild is no less, and maybe even more than other authors.
There is not a textbook in front of you, although there are a lot of theory in the book. Rather, a guide, such a book about poetry and prose. And do not think that someone is trying to teach you something in her, this is not at all. This is just a desire to go together the path that each author passes one by one. But it is always better together, isn"t it?