Mentor and muse : essays from poets to poets / edited by Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, and Helena Mesa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falconer, Blas.

Contributor:

Martinelli, Beth, 1970-

Mesa, Helena, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale [Ill.] ; Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Mentor and Muse, a collection of twenty-nine insightful essays by some of today's leading poetic minds, editors Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, and Helena Mesa have brought together an illuminating anthology that draws upon both established and emerging poets to create a one-of-a-kind resource and unlock the secrets of writing and revising poetry. Gathered here are numerous experts eager to share their wisdom with other writers. Each author examines in detail a particular poetic element, shedding new light on the endless possibilities of poetic forms. Address

Contents:

Indirection and the lyric poem / Patricia Clark

Lookalikes / Stanley Plumly

Beauty and its opposite conceit / Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan

The arresting and fluxing image / Victoria Chang

Gallant with delight: a use of setting / Jeff Hardin

The how and why of narrative poetry / Lisa D. Chavez

Myth, persona, and the personal / Shara McCallum

The self made strange: on translating Tomasz Roycki's iterations / Mira Rosenthal

The uncanny in the short lyric / Deirdre O'Connor

Recording mortal sight: the drama of prosody / Phillis Levin

The physics of persona / A. Van Jordan

For he can creep: Christopher Smart and anaphora / Joelle Biele

The burden of seed, the seed of burden: repetitional schemas & pace in Terrance Hayes Sonnet / Metta Sama

Slapped:with;lightning: poetry and punctuation / Susanna Rich

The active blank: the white space speaks / Elline Lipkin

Back to back: an epistolary essay on collaboration / Alice George and Cecilia Pinto

The quarrelsome poem / Michael Theune

Memento Mori and Terza Rima: a revision narrative / Diane Thiel

The eccentric discipline / Michael Waters

Winter gulls: towards authenticity / Nancy Eimers

Longfellow's ghost: writing popular poetry / Angela Sorby

Pimpin out / Maria Melendez

Breaking strategy / William Olsen

Writing against your music / Kevin Prufer

Lucifer matches: epistles & other conversations (the epistolary lyric) / Jane Satterfield

(On preparing for a tribute reading) a few thoughts on O'Hara's personal poem / Ralph Angel

Hiding your heart's desire / David Keplinger

The poem, its buried subject, and the revisionist reader: behind The guardian angel / Stephen Dunn

Bring yourself along / Mary Ann Samyn.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-69769-5

9786613674654

0-8093-8587-2

OCLC:

856870368