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Writing and understanding poetry for teachers and students : a heart's craft / Suzanne Keyworth and Cassandra Robison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keyworth, Suzanne, 1948- author.
- Robison, Cassandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Authorship.
- Poetry.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Grounded in craft, this book was composed on three premises: That the study and modeling of great poems is integral to understanding poetry and learning to write poems, that scaffolded learning builds a writer's and a reader's confidence and knowledge base and increases learning, and that teachers and facilitators of poetry can and should build.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Some Initial Thoughts on Poets and Poetry, Workshopping Poems, and the Creative Process
- Chapter Two. Beyond the Ordinary: Witnessing the World as a Poet
- Chapter Three. Imagery: Getting to the Heart of I
- Chapter Four. Metaphors and Symbols: Finding and Using Creative Analogies
- Chapter Five. Line Endings, Turns, and Epiphanies: More Essential Elements of Craft
- Chapter Six. The Speaker and the Reader: A Dialogue
- Chapter Seven. Narrative Poetry: Poems That Tell Stories
- Chapter Eight. Communicating Emotional Truths and Avoiding Melodrama
- Chapter Nine. Writing in Other Voices
- Chapter Ten. Sound Devices
- Chapter Eleven. Punctuation: A Surprisingly Creative Tool
- Chapter Twelve. Effective Titles: Hints at Theme
- Chapter Thirteen. Nature as Muse
- Chapter Fourteen. The Prose Poem: A Revelatory Form
- Chapter Fifteen. Writing in Various Forms
- Chapter Sixteen. Portfolios, Presentations, Aural Modeling, and Syllabi
- Brief LiteraryBiographies of the Poets.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4758-1407-0
- 1-4758-1408-9
- OCLC:
- 904249123
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