Poetry : a survivor's guide / Mark Yakich.

"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 po...

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Main Author: Yakich, Mark (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016.
©2016.
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Genre:Poetry.

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Reading: Essentials -- Poetic aims -- Accessibility -- Biography -- Close reading -- Emotion -- Pattern and variation -- Ineffability -- Sound work -- Rhythm -- Enjambment -- The line -- The lyric -- Metaphor -- Ambiguity -- Dickinson -- Classics -- Myths -- Great books -- Whitman -- Imagery -- Roses -- Prose poetry -- Narrative -- Criticism and theory -- Pessoa -- Political poetry -- Aesthetics -- Reader response -- Classroom reading -- Poetry readings -- Reader's block -- Spirituality -- Flight -- Writing: First principles -- Form -- Sonnet -- Self-expression -- Sublimation -- Imitation -- Avant-Garde -- Translation -- Technique -- The creative writing classroom -- The workshop -- Peer review -- Revision -- Poet-teachers -- Professionalization -- Master of Fine Arts -- Literary magazines -- Publication -- Series, sequence -- Chapbook, manuscript -- Collections -- Book reviews -- Writing conferences -- Culture jamming -- Poetic practices -- Procrastination -- End notes -- Epilogue. 
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