Poetry : a survivor's guide /
Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over. Questions of poetry&#...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Reading: Essentials
- Poetic aims
- Accessibility
- Biography
- Close reading
- Emotion
- Pattern and variation
- Ineffability
- Sound work
- Rhythm
- Enjambment
- The line
- The lyric
- Metaphor
- Ambiguity
- Dickinson
- Classics
- Myths
- Great books
- Whitman
- Imagery
- Roses
- Prose poetry
- Narrative
- Criticism and theory
- Pessoa
- Political poetry
- Aesthetics
- Reader response
- Classroom reading
- Poetry readings
- Reader's block
- Spirituality
- Flight
- Writing: First principles
- Form
- Sonnet
- Self-expression
- Sublimation
- Imitation
- Avant-Garde
- Translation
- Technique
- The creative writing classroom
- The workshop
- Peer review
- Revision
- Poet-teachers
- Professionalization
- Master of fine arts
- Literary magazines
- Publication
- Series, sequence
- Chapbooks, manuscript
- Collections
- Book reviews
- Writing conferences
- Culture jamming
- Poetic practices
- Procrastination
- End notes
- Epilogue.