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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning poet and teacher demystifies poetry's most elusive element. In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an animate thing of shifting balances, tones, and temperatures, by turns confiding, vulgar, bossy, or cunning--but above all,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected here, most of them written originally for the New York Times, Orr is at his rigorous, conversational, and edifying best. Whether he is considering...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry." "The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage Mark Strand while he reads for the first time a poem that truly amazes him: "You, Andrew Marvell" by Archibald MacLeish, in which night sweeps in an unstoppable but exhilarating circle around the earth toward the speaker standing at noon. The essay goes on to explicate the...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
"From acrostics and ballads to meter and metaphor, author and poet Judy Young has written a collection of poems to illustrate poetic tools, terms, and techniques. Each term or technique is demonstrated in an accompanying poem so readers can see the method at work"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This ingenious guide provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. The elements of this important literary form - from story, character, idea, and sentiment to diction, prosody, and graphic layout - are presented in an accessible and student-friendly manner, and readers and writers of all levels will benefit from the thoughtful insights and commonsense guidance provided by the...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
""The staggering thing about a life's work is it takes a lifetime to complete," Craig Morgan Teicher writes in these luminous essays. We Begin in Gladness considers how poets start out, how they learn to hear themselves, and how some offer us that rare, glittering thing: lasting work. Teicher traces the poetic development of the works of Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, Louise Glück, and Francine J. Harris, among others, to illuminate the paths they forged--by...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
How does life survive on Earth? Why is Pluto no longer considered a planet? And just how big is Jupiter, really? The answers to these questions and more are explored in this innovative non-fiction book featuring 14 beautifully written poems about space. Every object in our solar system is paired with a different kind of poem, from lyrical sonnets to bouncy rhyming couplets, twisty sestinas to joyful free verse. Every spread features a flap that opens...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A Poet's Glossary was an extraordinary achievement, a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Now, The Essential Poet's Glossary gleans the fundamentals from that extraordinary volume. Edward Hirsch's sparkling new work compiles poetic terms spanning centuries and continents, including forms, devices, movements, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore. Knowing how a poem works is crucial to unlocking its meaning--entries will deepen...
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