A primer for poets & readers of poetry
By: Gregory Orr
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780393253924
Subjects: Authorship; Poetry; Appreciation
Description: "Guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while introducing the art in an exciting new way ... It provides the poet with more than a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold; the four corces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining); tactics of revision; ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry; and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forbears."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Disorder and order; title: Poetry is both simple and complex; title: Letting in the disorder; title: the lyric invitation; title: Part two: Powers of ordering; title: Imagination at the threshold; title: Lyric and narrative: two fundamental ordering impulses; title: Some basic issues; title: Part three: Words coming alive in poems; title: Words coming alive in poems; title: Naming; title: Singing; title: Saying; title: Imagining; title: Part four: Why poems? Why poets?; title: Ecstasy ad engagement; title: A second self in a second world; title: Craft and quest.