The Mechanics of Poetry
Title | The Mechanics of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Su Falcon Soref |
Publisher | Precision Wordage Press |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780962709005 |
"This book collects basic concepts and terms used in poetry and defines them in a logical sequence with clear, simple language ..." It is attempts to provide some insight into the tools of the craft of poetry--Cover
Poem-making
Title | Poem-making PDF eBook |
Author | Myra Cohn Livingston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
Introduces the different kinds of poetry and the mechanics of writing poetry, providing an opportunity for the reader to experience the joy of making a poem.
Grammar of Poetry
Title | Grammar of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Whitling |
Publisher | |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN | 9781591281191 |
A Poetry Handbook
Title | A Poetry Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Oliver |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780156724005 |
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Title | Wound from the Mouth of a Wound PDF eBook |
Author | torrin a. greathouse |
Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2020-12-22 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1571317155 |
A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.
Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics
Title | Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics PDF eBook |
Author | David Hadbawnik |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2022-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501511238 |
This volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways. Such recent projects invert or “queer” the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of literature, in which readers are asked to exchange some small measure of bewilderment at archaic language or forms for a sense of having experienced a medieval text. The poets under consideration in this volume demand that readers grapple with the ways in which we are still “medieval” – in other words, the ways in which the questions posed by their medieval source material still reverberate and hold relevance for today’s world. They do so by challenging the primacy of present over past, toppling the categories of old and new, and suggesting new interpretive frameworks for contemporary and medieval poetry alike.
Mr. West
Title | Mr. West PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Blake |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2015-03-09 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0819575186 |
Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader's companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.