Third Mind
Subtitle: Creative Writing Through Visual Art
Contributors: Tonya Foster (Editor); Kristin Prevallet (Editor)
Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780915924943
Subjects: Rhetoric; Visual communication; Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing; Education; Reference; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Study and teaching; Composition & Creative Writing - General; Higher; Education / Higher; Visual perception; Composition and exercises; English language
First sentence: IT WAS ONLY AFTER SEVERAL YEARS of using art to launch students' poetry (and my own) that I learned the process had a formal name-"ekphrastic poetry" (or, alternately, "ecphrastic")-from the Greek, meaning poetry that takes its inspiration from visual art.