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More copies of this ISBNWestern Wind : an Introduction To Poetry (5TH 06 Edition)by David Mason
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art. About the AuthorDavid Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, and received degrees from The Colorado College and the University of Rochester. He spent most of his twenties traveling and working as a manual laborer, with a brief stint working for a film company. He has taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and is now on the faculty of The Colorado College. He lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs. Masons two prize-winning books of poems are The Buried Houses (1991) and The Country I Remember (1996). With Mark Jarman he co-edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996; reprinted 1998) and with the late John Frederick Nims Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (2000). His collection of literary essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000. Mason is also a memoirist, fiction writer and frequent book reviewer.Born in Muskegon, Michigan, John Frederick Nims received his M.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. He has taught poetry and given workshops in poetry at Notre Dame, the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois at Urbana, Harvard University, Willialms College, the University of Florida, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Florence and Madrid and has been on the staff of many writers conferences, including the one at Bread Loaf, Vermont, where he taught for more than ten years. He is the author of eight books of poetry among them, The Iron Pastoral, Knowledge of the Evening (a National Book Award nominee), The Kiss: A Jambalaya, Zany in Denim, and The Six Cornered Snowflakebooks that have brought him awards from The National Foundation of Arts and Humanities, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Brandeis University, which awarded him its Creative Arts Citation in Poetry. He has been the Phi Beta Kappa poet at the College of William and Mary and at Harvard University. He has also published several books of translations, including Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation, The Poems of St. John of the Cross, and The Complete Poems of Michelangelo and edited The Harper Anthology of Poetry. Several times on the staff of Poetry (Chicago), he was its editor from 1978 to 1984. In 1982, he was awarded the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets; in 1986, a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry; in 1991, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Table of Contents*- indicates selection or author is new to this edition Before We Begin 1. WHERE EXPERIENCE STARTS: The Image *Jim Moore The Same Life Archibald Macleish Eleven T.S. Eliot Preludes The Specific Image Anthony Hecht The End Of The Weekend Exercises and Diversions Sappho Leaving Crete, Come Visit Again *Jim Moore Haiku/Touch Simile and Metaphor Robert Frost The Silken Tent Linda Pastan Returning William Butler Yeats No Second Troy *Al Young Up Vernon's Alley Analogy Synesthesia Alexander Pope Intended For Sir Isaac Newton Personfication, Mythology William Butler Yeats Leda And The Swan Exercises and Diversions Essays and Poems Synecdoche, Metonymy The Symbol *Jenn Habel Another Poem About the Heart William Blake The Sick Rose Saint John Of The Cross The Dark Night Rainer Maria Rilke The Merry-Go-Round *Frank O'Hara Why I am Not a Painter Sir Thomas Wyatt My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness Billy Collins The Death of Allegory John Crowe Ransom Good Ships Essays and Poems Antipoetry Francis P. Osgood Winter Fairyland In Vermont Walt Whitman Beauty Paradox Alexander Pope From An Essay on Man *Wilfred Owen The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Simonides On the Spartan Dead at Thermopylae Overstatement Exercises and Diversions Wallace Stevens The Emperor Of Ice-Cream Part Two: The Emotions. The Role of Emotion Dick Davis Desire Ammianus Epitaph of Nearchos W.H. Auden The Shield of Achilles Anonymous The Unquiet Grave John Crowe Ransom Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter James Wright A Song for The Middle of the Night William Stafford Traveling Through The Dark Exercises and Diversions Essays and Poems 6. MACHINE FOR MAGIC: The Fresh Usual Words Kenneth Patchen Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, Live Emily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in The Grass Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, Break, Break William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Hilaire Belloc On His Books W.H. Auden The Wanderer *Emily Grosholz Remembering the Ardeche Randall Jarrell The Knight, Death, and the Devil Part Four: The Sounds. *Kay Ryan Crustaceon Isalnd Vowels and Assonance Robert Frost Once By The Pacific *Christian Bök Vowels Exercises and Diversions Essays and Poems Language as Mimicry *Anne Stevenson Making Poetry *Etheridge Knight A Poem for Myself Off-Rhyme or Slant Rhyme *Thomas McGrath Remembering the Children of Auschwitz William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree *Ezra Pound Ancient Music Charles Causley Lord Lovelace *Timothy Murphy Twice Cursed; Poets Prayer Essays and Poems 9. THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: The Play of Rhythms Repetition as Rhythm Walt Whitman From Leaves of Grass A Note on Scansion Variations on Iambic Meter and Rhythm Line Length *May Swenson Question Exercises and Diversions Katherine McAlpine That Ghastly Night in Dover 10. DIFFERENT DRUMMERS: Alternative Forms of Meter George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction Of Sennacherib Strong-Stress Rhythms Richard Wilbur Funk E.E. Cummings if everything happens that can't be done Sprung Rhythm *Timothy Steele Sapphics against Anger James Tate Miss Cho Composes in the Cafeteria Exercises and Diversions 11. REMOVING THE NET: "Free Verse," Concrete Poetry, Prose Poems *H.D. Oread Line Breaks *Denise Levertov The Ache of Marriage *Suzanne Lummis Morning After the 6.1 The Variable Foot Concrete and Shaped Poetry Hanjorg Mayer Oil The Prose Poem *Marie Howe Part of Eves Discussion Exercises and Diversions Essays and Poems 12. THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT: Sentences and Structure Eugenio Montale The Eel Use of Connectives Parallelism *Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Learning to Love America E.E. Cummings Me up at does Robert Frost Beyond Words John Clare Remember Dear Mary Robert Graves The Persian Version Creating New Words Exercises and Diversions COLOR PLATES |
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