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A Poet's Guide to Poetry (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing)by Mary Kinzie
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A Poet's Guide to Poetry brings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie shares her own successful classroom tacticsencouraging readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional. The three parts of A Poet's Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most devious. Part I presents the style, grammar, and rhetoric of poems with a wealth of examples from various literary periods. Part II discusses the way the elements of a poem are controlled in time through a careful explanation and exploration of meter and rhythm. The "four freedoms" of free verse are also examined. Part III closes the book with helpful practicum chapters on writing in form. Included here are writing exercises for beginning as well as advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms replete with poetry examples, and an annotated bibliography for further explanatory reading. This useful handbook is an ideal reference for literature and writing students as well as practicing poets. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Enchantment of the WorkWriting the Poem You Read: A View of the Artistic ProcessPart I: The Elements of Relation and ResemblanceLine and Half-MeaningSyntax and Whole MeaningDiction and Layers in MeaningTrope and ThoughtRhetoric and SpeechRhythm as CombinationPart II: The Elements, Controlled in TimeAccentual-Syllabic Meter: The Role of Stress and IntervalStanza and Rhyme: The Role of EchoFurther Rhythms in English—Counted Forms: Accentual Verse and Syllabic Verse (including Haiku)Further Rhythms in English—Non-Counted Forms: The Four Freedoms of Free VersePart III: Writing in FormExercises for Beginning and Advanced WritersPoetic TermsAnnotated Bibliography of Further Reading What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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