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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226437396

ISBN-139780226437392

eBay Product ID (ePID)368499

Product Key Features

Number of Pages572 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePoet's Guide to Poetry

SubjectGeneral, Poetry

Publication Year1999

FeaturesReprint

TypeNot Available

AuthorMary Kinzie

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Reference, Poetry

SeriesChicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight26.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN98-010248

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingA

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal808.1

Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Enchantment of the Work Writing the Poem You Read: A View of the Artistic Process Part I: The Elements of Relation and Resemblance Line and Half-Meaning Syntax and Whole Meaning Diction and Layers in Meaning Trope and Thought Rhetoric and Speech Rhythm as Combination Part II: The Elements, Controlled in Time Accentual-Syllabic Meter: The Role of Stress and Interval Stanza and Rhyme: The Role of Echo Further Rhythms in English--Counted Forms: Accentual Verse and Syllabic Verse (including Haiku) Further Rhythms in English--Non-Counted Forms: The Four Freedoms of Free Verse Part III: Writing in Form Exercises for Beginning and Advanced Writers Poetic Terms Annotated Bibliography of Further Reading

Edition DescriptionReprint

Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisA Poet's Guide to Poetry brings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie shares her own successful classroom tactics--encouraging readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional. The three parts of A Poet's Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most devious. Part I presents the style, grammar, and rhetoric of poems with a wealth of examples from various literary periods. Part II discusses the way the elements of a poem are controlled in time through a careful explanation and exploration of meter and rhythm. The "four freedoms" of free verse are also examined. Part III closes the book with helpful practicum chapters on writing in form. Included here are writing exercises for beginning as well as advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms replete with poetry examples, and an annotated bibliography for further explanatory reading. This useful handbook is an ideal reference for literature and writing students as well as practicing poets., "A Poet's Guide to Poetry" brings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie shares her own successful classroom tactics encouraging readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional. The three parts of "A Poet's Guide to Poetry" lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most devious. Part I presents the style, grammar, and rhetoric of poems with a wealth of examples from various literary periods. Part II discusses the way the elements of a poem are controlled in time through a careful explanation and exploration of meter and rhythm. The "four freedoms" of free verse are also examined. Part III closes the book with helpful practicum chapters on writing in form. Included here are writing exercises for beginning as well as advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms replete with poetry examples, and an annotated bibliography for further explanatory reading. This useful handbook is an ideal reference for literature and writing students as well as practicing poets. "

LC Classification NumberPN1059.A9K56 1998