Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns
Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turnsoffers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems  structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras.    The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others.  In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work. --Teachers & WritersMichael Theune has come up with an ingenious way of thinking about poetry. --Ed HirschA smart collection of takes on poetry's most essential maneuvers. --Billy Collins