Paisley Rekdal

Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An illuminating exploration of how to read and understand poetry, and how reading critically can teach us to write.

What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? While there are as many ways to read a poem as there are types of poetry, every poem demands a conscious attention to language. Reading poems forensically helps us bring that attention to our own writing.

In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poemincluding its diction, form, imagery, and rhythmand construct an interpretation of its meaning. Through close analyses of contemporary and classic poems as well as creative exercises and specific, skill-based questions, this book shows how a poem takes shape and accrues meaning through the intersection of all its lyric elements. Lucid and generous, Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens reveals how to read and write critically, and how to appreciateand achievethe exhilarating craft of poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393881998
• Artikelnr.: 69800821

Autorenporträt

Paisley Rekdal is the author of ten books of poetry and nonfiction, including Appropriate: A Provocation. The director of the American West Center and a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah, she lives in Salt Lake City.