| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 1994 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780156724005 |
| Pages | : 130 pages |
Offers advice on reading and writing poetry, and discusses imitation, sound, the line, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, and workshops
| Author | : John Lennard |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Release Date | : 2006-01-06 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780191532733 |
| Pages | : 448 pages |
The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott), to build up sustained analytical readings. Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented by detailed reference to the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a companion website with texts, links, and further discussion, The Poetry Handbook is indispensable for all school and undergraduate students of English. A final chapter addresses examinations of all kinds, and sample essays by undergraduates are posted on the website. Critical and scholarly terms are italicised and clearly explained, both in the text and in a complete glossary; the volume also includes suggestions for further reading. The first edition, widely praised by teachers and students, showed how the pleasures of poetry are heightened by rigorous understanding and made that understanding readily available. This second edition — revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English.
| Author | : Babette Deutsch |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 2002 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 203 pages |
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780395850862 |
| Pages | : 194 pages |
An introduction to the sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion of metrical poetry with examples from the Elizabethan Age to Elizabeth Bishop
| Author | : MS Maria Luisa Arroyo Mfa,María Luisa Arroyo |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Release Date | : 2018-07-26 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781723512889 |
| Pages | : 48 pages |
This poetry handbook will appeal to many: ELA and ESL middle school teachers, after-school enrichment coordinators, middle school students curious about poetry, and more! Here you will find accessible, original poems by the award-winning multilingual poet and educator, María Luisa Arroyo. who has 15+ years of experience teaching community-based poetry to poets of all ages in all stages. Here, too, you will be awed by the courage and vulnerability that the student poems convey. The overarching message? Every individual is inherently creative. Here are a few tools to try.
| Author | : Edward Hirsch |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Release Date | : 1999-03-22 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780547543727 |
| Pages | : 288 pages |
"Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps next to you. Say it over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of culture—the constant buzzing noise that surrounds you—has momentarily stopped. This poem has come from a great distance to find you." So begins this astonishing book by one of our leading poets and critics. In an unprecedented exploration of the genre, Hirsch writes about what poetry is, why it matters, and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message—which is of vital importance in day-to-day life—can reach us and make a difference. For Hirsch, poetry is not just a part of life, it is life, and expresses like no other art our most sublime emotions. In a marvelous reading of world poetry, including verse by such poets as Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, William Wordsworth, Sylvia Plath, Charles Baudelaire, and many more, Hirsch discovers the meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives but don't know how to read it.
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
| Author | : Lewis Turco |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781584650225 |
| Pages | : 337 pages |
Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Release Date | : 2012-03-28 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0807095397 |
| Pages | : 96 pages |
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
| Author | : Sandford Lyne |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Release Date | : 2007-03 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1402254202 |
| Pages | : 256 pages |
In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encouragement you need to find the poet inside you. Lyne's techniques, which he developed through twenty years of teaching poetry workshops, flow from an understanding that poetry is an art form open to everyone. We all can-and should-write poetry. In this enchanting and inspiring volume, Lyne will introduce you to the pleasures and surprises of writing poetry, and his methods and insights will help you tap into your own unique voice and perspective to compose poems of your own in as little as a few minutes. Whether you are an experienced writer looking for new techniques and sources of inspiration or a novice poet who has never written a poem in your life, Writing Poetry from the Inside Out will help you to craft the poems you've always longed to write.
| Author | : Ted Kooser |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Release Date | : 2007-03-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780803259782 |
| Pages | : 168 pages |
Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.
| Author | : Ron Padgett |
| Publisher | : N.A |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : |
| Pages | : 228 pages |
A reference guide to various forms of poetry with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry defines the form and gives its history, examples, and suggestions for usage.