A poet's craft : a comprehensive guide to making and sharing your poetry / Annie Finch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finch, Annie, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 695 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]

Summary:

A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. Like textbooks, it includes poetry-writing exercises and discussion of classic and contemporary poems as examples, and is logically organized to provide a complete overview of the elements of poetry writing, from diction to trope to free verse. Like general poetry guides, it has a tone lively and mature enough for the nonundergraduate, and includes sections on journaling and inspiration, revision, publishing, and even how to assemble a poetry book. Like form guides, A Poet's Craft provides an introduction to meter and to writing formal poetry. Finch's book goes further than any form guide now available to give readers a thorough, eclectic, and exciting introduction to poetic form.

Contents:

Part 1: Invoking poems: inspirations and materials

1. Inspiration: the wood between the worlds

2. Poetry as nourishment: how to read like a poet

3. Thirty-nine ways to make a poem: a generative resource

4. The raw material: words and their roots

5. Three modes of poetry: lyric, dramatic, and narrative

Part 2: Making poems: sense and sound

6. Making senses: imagery and abstraction

7. Turn, turn, turn: metaphors and other tropes

8. What if a much of a which of a word-music?

9. Syntax and rhetorical structure: words in order and disorder

10. Stop making sense: exploratory poetics and poetic experiments

Part 3: Breathing poems: rhythm and meter

11. Hearing the beat: accent and accentual poetry

12. Meter: a language for the body

13. The many voices of iambic meter

14. The metrical palette: beyond iambic pentameter

15. Forms of free verse

Part 4: Shaping poems: structure and form

16. Stanzas: a poem's breathing rooms

17. Worth repeating: forms based on repetition

18. Chaos in fourteen lines: the sonnet

19. Deep story: the ballad

Part 5: Sharing poems: publishing and performing

20. Revisioning revision

21. Bearing the gift: sharing your poetry through publication and readings

22. Getting it together: creating a chapbook or book.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0472033646

9780472116935

0472116932

9780472033645

OCLC:

727357057

Publisher Number:

99948069695