Poetry
Subtitle: a survivor's guide
By: Mark Yakich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781501309502; 9781501309496
Subjects: Poetry; Creative writing
Description: "Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over. Questions of poetry's difficulty, pretension, and relevance are explored with insight and daring. In an age of new media and social networking, this handbook-cum-manifesto provides fresh reverence for one of our oldest forms of art"--

"A provocative and practical guide, written for students of creative writing as well as literary studies, to an art form that is both loved and feared"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reading: Essentials; title: Poetic aims; title: Accessibility; title: Biography; title: Close reading; title: Emotion; title: Pattern and variation; title: Ineffability; title: Sound work; title: Rhythm; title: Enjambment; title: The line; title: The lyric; title: Metaphor; title: Ambiguity; title: Dickinson; title: Classics; title: Myths; title: Great books; title: Whitman; title: Imagery; title: Roses; title: Prose poetry; title: Narrative; title: Criticism and theory; title: Pessoa; title: Political poetry; title: Aesthetics; title: Reader response; title: Classroom reading; title: Poetry readings; title: Reader's block; title: Spirituality; title: Flight; title: Writing: First principles; title: Form; title: Sonnet; title: Self-expression; title: Sublimation; title: Imitation; title: Avant-Garde; title: Translation; title: Technique; title: The creative writing classroom; title: The workshop; title: Peer review; title: Revision; title: Poet-teachers; title: Professionalization; title: Master of fine arts; title: Literary magazines; title: Publication; title: Series, sequence; title: Chapbooks, manuscript; title: Collections; title: Book reviews; title: Writing conferences; title: Culture jamming; title: Poetic practices; title: Procrastination; title: End notes; title: Epilogue.