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Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Writing Poetry combines an accessible introduction to the essential elements of the craft, with a critical awareness of its underpinnings. The authors argue that separating the making of poems from critical thinking about them is a false divide and encourage students to become accomplished critics and active readers of poetic texts.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist. "Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being." In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds some of the ways this is done--by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language's own acts of discovery; by the powers...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace and Company
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
This volume presents an exploration of poetry and feeling, introducing poems selected by the author as emblematic because they suggest something crucial about the nature of poetry itself, and offering his insights on how the poems should be read. In this guide, the author reaches out to all those who may be disaffected by the mere mention of poetry and instructs the reader to focus on a personal, emotional response.
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