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Author |
: Mary Kinzie |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 1993-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226437353 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226437354 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose by : Mary Kinzie
The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays. A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on "the rhapsodic fallacy," confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets—Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery—who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. Focusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry and fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.
Author |
: Mary Kinzie |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226923061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226923062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Poet's Guide to Poetry by : Mary Kinzie
In A Poet’s Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie also shares her own successful classroom tactics that encourage readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional. The three parts of A Poet’s Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most subtle. The second part carefully examines meter and rhythm, as well as providing a theoretical and practical overview of free verse. The final section offers helpful chapters on writing in form. Rounding out the volume are writing exercises for beginning and advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms, and a bibliography of further reading. For this new edition, Kinzie has carefully reworked the introductory material and first chapter, as well as amended the annotated bibliography to include the most recent works of criticism. The updated guide also contains revised exercises and adjustments throughout the text to make the work as lucid and accessible as possible.
Author |
: Mary Kinzie |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1303494928 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The cure of poetry in an age of prose by : Mary Kinzie
Author |
: Roland Greene |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1678 |
Release |
: 2012-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691154916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691154910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by : Roland Greene
Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
Author |
: Rebecca Balcárcel |
Publisher |
: Chronicle Books |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2019-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452170008 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452170002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other Half of Happy by : Rebecca Balcárcel
Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. But she can't help the growing feelings she has for Jayden. One-half kid, one-half grown-up: Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandma and trying to figure out what's going on with her increasingly hard-to-reach brother. In the course of this immersive and beautifully written novel, Quijana must figure out which parts of herself are most important, and which pieces come together to make her whole. This lyrical debut from Rebecca Balcárcel is a heartfelt poetic portrayal of a girl growing up, fitting in, and learning what it means to belong.
Author |
: Terence Hawkes |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2005-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134834655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134834659 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Textual Practice by : Terence Hawkes
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Vidyan Ravinthiran |
Publisher |
: Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611486827 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611486823 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic by : Vidyan Ravinthiran
Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse. Yet the dominant biographical/psychoanalytical approach leaves her style relatively untouched—and it is vital that an increasing focus on archival material does not replace our attention to the writing itself. Bishop’s verse is often compared with prose (sometimes insultingly); writing fiction, she worried she was really writing poems. But what truly is the difference between poetry and prose—structurally, conceptually, historically speaking? Is prose simply formalized speech, or does it have rhythms of its own? Ravinthiran seeks an answer to this question through close analysis of Bishop’s prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose. This title is a provocation. It demands that we reconsider the pejorative quality of the word prosaic; playing on mosaic, Ravinthiran uses Bishop’s thinking about prose to approach—for the first time—her work in multiple genres as a stylistic whole. Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic is concerned not only with her inimitable style, but also larger questions to do with the Anglo-American shift from closed to open forms in the twentieth century. This study identifies not just borrowings from, but rich intertextual relationships with, writers as diverse as—among others—Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, Flannery O’Connor, and Dorothy Richardson. (Though Bishop criticized Woolf, she in particular is treated as a central and thus far neglected precursor, crucial to our understanding of Bishop as a feminist poet.) Finally, the sustained discussion of how the history of prose frames effects of rhythm, syntax, and acoustic texture—in both Bishop’s prose proper and her prosaic verse—extends a body of research which seeks now to treat literature as a form of cognition. Technique and thought are finely wedded in Bishop’s work—her literary forms evince a historical intelligence attuned to questions of power, nationality, tradition (both literary and otherwise), race, and gender.
Author |
: Stephanie Burt |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2016-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674737877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674737873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poem Is You by : Stephanie Burt
The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture.
Author |
: Joy Harjo |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 139 |
Release |
: 2012-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393083897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393083896 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crazy Brave: A Memoir by : Joy Harjo
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.
Author |
: Jeremy Noel-Tod |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2018-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780241285800 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0241285801 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by : Jeremy Noel-Tod
'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer 'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily Telegraph This is the prose poem: a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name', one of literature's great open secrets, and the home for over 150 years of extraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. This uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from every stage of the form's evolution, beginning with the great flowering of recent years before moving in reverse order through the international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the prose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France. Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod