The Poets Companion A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

Author : Kim Addonizio
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340880
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry written by Kim Addonizio and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well. The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published and writing in the electronic age. On your own, this book can be your "teacher," while groups, in or out of the classroom, can profit from sharing weekly assignments.

Author : Kim Addonizio
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393316544
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry written by Kim Addonizio and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-09-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two accomplished poets and teachers offer a poetry primer that includes short essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and possible subjects for writing, along with writing exercises, tips on getting published, and examples of contemporary poetry.

Author : Erik Martiny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444344293
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Poetic Genre written by Erik Martiny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.

Author : Dorianne Laux
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160371
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Carry written by Dorianne Laux and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.

Author : Stephen Dobyns
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 023011878X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Next Word, Better Word written by Stephen Dobyns and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience to bear on issues such as subject matter, the mechanics of poetry, and the revision process, Dobyns explores the complex relationship between writers and their work. From Philip Larkin to Pablo Neruda to William Butler Yeats, every chapter reveals useful lessons in these renowned poets' work. Both enlightening and encouraging, Next Word, Better Word demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the creative process.

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259782
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry Home Repair Manual written by Ted Kooser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.

Author : Diane Lockward
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1947896083
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practicing Poet written by Diane Lockward and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan G. Wooldridge
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307559122
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poemcrazy written by Susan G. Wooldridge and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

Author : Dorianne Laux
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393080919
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Men: Poems written by Dorianne Laux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine The narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best, luminous" (San Diego Union-Tribune). from "To Kiss Frank," make out with him a bit, this is what my friend would like to do oh these too many dead summers later, and as much as I want to stroll with her into the poet's hazy fancy all I can see is O'Hara's long gone lips fallen free of the bone, slumbering beneath the grainy soil.

Author : Gary Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899241265
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One for the Money written by Gary Young and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-sentence poem has proven to be a compelling and persistent poetic device through the ages. This anthology offers strategies and prompts for using the single sentence as a principle of poetic structure, a rhetorical tool, and a stimulus. The book includes an extraordinary array of one-sentence poems from a wide range of historical periods, poetic perspectives, and lengths--from epigrams and aphorisms to sonnets, lyrics, and narratives that range over several pages. More than 80 poets are represented, from Shakespeare to Kay Ryan.