Windows and doors : a poet reads literary theory / Natasha Sajé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sajé, Natasha, 1955- author.

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

xi, 195 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]

Summary:

Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology. Foundational topics-diction, syntax, rhythm, surprise, figurative language, narrative, genre, book design, and performance-are explained through the lenses of theory, history, and philosophy and illuminated through vibrant examples from the works of numerous contemporary American poets. Book jacket.

Contents:

Roots in Our Throats: A Case for Using Etymology 1

Front-Loading Syntax 19

Rhythm and Repetition in Free Verse, or, the Poet as Witch 42

Gertrude Stein's Granddaughters: A Reading of Surprise 69

Metonymy, the Neglected (but Necessary) Trope 86

"Why Must It Always End This Way?" Narrative Poetry and Its (Dis) contents 103

A Sexy New Amimal: The DNA of the Prose Poem 134

Dynamic Design: The Structure of Books of Poems 157

Performance of the Lyric "I" 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780472035991

0472035991

OCLC:

882620064