Amorak Huey, W. Todd Kaneko

Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

A Writers' Guide and Anthology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing prompts. The book guides the reader through a range of poetic modes including:

- Elegy
- Found poems
- Nocturne
- Ode
- Protest poems
- Ars Poetica
- Lyric
- Narrative

Poetry also offers inspiring examples of contemporary poetry covering all the modes and elements discussed by the book, including poems by: Billy Collins, Sherman Alexie, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Natalie Diaz, Traci Brimhall, Terrance Hayes, Richard Blanco, Danez Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Mark Halliday, Eileen Myles, Mary Jo Bang, Tracy K. Smith, Ocean Vuong, and many others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350020177
• Artikelnr.: 50216884

Autorenporträt

Amorak Huey teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. He is author of four books of poetry, including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (2021). He is co-founding editor of River River Books; he and W. Todd Kaneko also collaborated on the award-winning chapbook Slash/Slash (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Word of Welcome for Teachers and Students Section 1: An
Introduction to Poetry 1. Why do we write poems? 2. What is meaning? 3.
What does talent have to do with anything? 4. Where do poems come from? 5.
What does it mean to be a Poet? Section 2: The Elements of Poetry 6.
Rhetorical Construction 7. The Elements Section 3: Practicalities 8. The
Poetry Workshop 9. Revision 10. Proceed with Caution Section 4: An
Anthology of Contemporary Poetic Modes Appendix: 75 Poetry Experiments
Further Reading Index