The flexible lyric / Ellen Bryant Voigt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943-

Series:

Life of poetry.

Life of poetry : poets on their art and craft

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943---Authorship.

Voigt, Ellen Bryant.

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems. She argues for reading as a writer reads-with equal parts passion and analysis. Her analyses of the effects of tone, image, voice, and structure connect brilliant theory with tangible examples. Intimate as well as informative, the collection begins with a discussion of the creative process and Voigt's fascination with the writing of Flannery O'Connor and Elizabeth Bishop. Readings of lyric poems by Shakespeare, Sidney, Poe, Stevens, Williams, Larkin, Bogan, Roethke, Plath, Levertov, Berryman, and others demonstrate the roles of gender, point of view, image, and music in poetry. An experienced teacher, Voigt focuses on the lyric but encourages, in any study of poetry, original thinking, attention to structure, and, above all, close reading of the work itself. An intelligent and thought-provoking marriage of art and scholarship, The Flexible Lyric exemplifies, with fierceness, dedication, and precision, how the making of poems is not just a trade but a calling.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

In the Waiting Room

Poetry and Gender

Rethinking Adjectives

Image

On Tone

Structural Subversion

The Flexible Lyric

Ruthless Attention

A Moment's Thought

Selected Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

K

L

M

O

P

R

S

T

W

Y.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613031228

9781283031226

1283031221

9780820340067

0820340065

OCLC:

707924441