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Poetry : a survivor's guide / Mark Yakich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yakich, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Creative writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over. Questions of poetry's difficulty, pretension, and relevance are explored with insight and daring. In an age of new media and social networking, this handbook-cum-manifesto provides fresh reverence for one of our oldest forms of art.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Reading: Essentials
- Poetic aims
- Accessibility
- Biography
- Close reading
- Emotion
- Pattern and variation
- Ineffability
- Sound work
- Rhythm
- Enjambment
- The line
- The lyric
- Metaphor
- Ambiguity
- Dickinson
- Classics
- Myths
- Great books
- Whitman
- Imagery
- Roses
- Prose poetry
- Narrative
- Criticism and theory
- Pessoa
- Political poetry
- Aesthetics
- Reader response
- Classroom reading
- Poetry readings
- Reader's block
- Spirituality
- Flight
- Writing: First principles
- Form
- Sonnet
- Self-expression
- Sublimation
- Imitation
- Avant-Garde
- Translation
- Technique
- The creative writing classroom
- The workshop
- Peer review
- Revision
- Poet-teachers
- Professionalization
- Master of fine arts
- Literary magazines
- Publication
- Series, sequence
- Chapbooks, manuscript
- Collections
- Book reviews
- Writing conferences
- Culture jamming
- Poetic practices
- Procrastination
- End notes
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781501309526
- 1501309528
- Publisher Number:
- 99967334486
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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