The art of voice : poetic principles and practice /
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 stro...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The living speaker
- Showing the mind in motion
- The sound of intimacy : the poem's connection with its audience
- The warmth of worldliness : the material-verbal imagination
- The tribal bond of the vernacular
- Whose voice is it? : a writer's voice is made from other writers' voices
- Voice as speech registers : high, middle, and low
- Imported voices : bringing other speakers into the poems
- Voices borrowed from the environment
- "Say it. say it": the voice of authority
- Conclusion : The multiplicity of the world and the heroic integration of the self
- For the teacher and user : on the use of prompts, exercises, and skill-building.