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ISBN 10: 1350020176
ISBN 13: 9781350020177
Author: Amorak Huey, Todd Kaneko
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.
Poetry A Writers Guide and Anthology 1st Table of contents:
SECTION I An Introduction to Poetry
1 Why Do We Write Poems?
2 What Is Meaning?
We have been taught that poems have meanings
Yes—poems totally have meanings
1 Poems are always about two things
2 Poems are not completely up to reader interpretation
3 Sometimes, meaning is secondary
4 As a writer, you don’t have to think about meaning
Your three brains
The Lizard Brain
The Animal Brain
The Human Brain
3 What Does Talent Have to Do with Anything?
Talent is the capability for hard work
Talent is the ability to muster courage
Talent is the ability to accept doubt
Talent is refusal to wait for inspiration
4 Where Do Poems Come From?
Writer’s block is a myth
Our obsessions, our interests
Writing from prompts
Form versus content
Imitation as invention
5 What Does It Mean to Be a Poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
What does it mean to be a poet?
SECTION II The Elements of Poetry
6 Rhetorical Construction
Logos
Rhetorical devices
Pathos
Ethos
7 The Elements of Poetry
Ambiguity
Beginnings
Clarity
Concision
Contradiction
Defamiliarization
Diction
Doorways
Endings
Exploration
Form
A bit about fixed forms
Formal terminologies
Gaze
Gravity and Lightness
Image
Inventory
Language
Lines
Lyric
Metaphor
Metaphor and the reader
Mood
Movement
Music
Narrative
Observation and Interpretation
Point of View
Third person
First person
Second person
Precision
Punctuation
Questioning
Repetition
Rhythm
Showing and Telling
Speaker
Surprise
Syntax
Titles
Value
Mechanical value
Associative value
Value as comparison
Redefinition and variable value
Questions about value?
Voice
Work
Density
Questions about work?
SECTION III Practicalities
8 The Poetry Workshop
Three levels of understanding
First level of understanding: I like it / I don’t like it
Second level of understanding: This is what the poem means
Third level of understanding: This is how meaning has been built
The conversation is for the writer
The conversation is for the room
Tips for a good workshop
Make the workshop a safe space
Be nice
Be forgiving
Be generous with your critique
Try to read the poem on its own terms
Describe the poem instead of prescribing a fix
Listen and take notes
Give praise
Write on other people’s poems
Remember that the poem is a draft
About “the gag rule”
Processing workshop feedback
Don’t simply look for consensus
Filter the workshop’s voices
Look past the advice
Get some distance
Coping with an unsuccessful workshop
9 Revision
Revision = Re + Vision
Letting go is the hardest part
Revising the almost-good-enough poem
Save your drafts
Read to revise
Revision techniques and exercises
10 Proceed with Caution
SECTION IV Contemporary Poetic Modes: An Anthology
Appendix A: 75 Poetry Experiments
Appendix B: Additional Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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