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ABC of Readingby Ezra PoundISBN 0811201511 (0-8112-0151-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'ABC of Reading'Book summary:Ezra Pounds classic book about the meaning of literature.
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pounds aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the worlds best literature. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding Treatise on Meter provides an illuminating essay for anyone aspiring to read and write poetry. ABC of Reading displays Pounds great ability to open new avenues in literature for our time. [via]More editions of ABC of Reading:
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versificationby Timothy SteeleISBN 0821412604 (0-8214-1260-4)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Aristotle on Poeticsby Aristotle, Michael Davis, Seth BenardeteISBN 1587310260 (1-58731-026-0)
Softcover, St Augustine Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle on Poetics'Book summary:Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. The late Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle's text into English as precisely as possible. A literal translation has long been needed, for in order to excavate the argument of On Poetics one has to attend not simply to what is said on the surface but also to the various puzzles, questions, and peculiarities that emerge only on the level of how Aristotle says what he says and thereby leads one to revise and deepen one's initial understanding of the intent of the argument. As On Poetics is about how tragedy ought to be composed, it should not be surprising that it turns out to be a rather artful piece of literature in its own right.
Benardete and Davis supplement their edition of On Poetics with extensive notes and appendices. They explain nuances of the original that elude translation, and they provide translations of passages found elsewhere in Aristotle's works as well as in those of other ancient authors that prove useful in thinking through the argument of On Poetics both in terms of its treatment of tragedy and in terms of its broader concerns. By following the connections Aristotle plots between On Poetics and his other works, readers will be in a position to appreciate the centrality of this work for his entire thought.
In an introduction that sketches the overall interpretation of On Poetics presented in hisThe Poetry of Philosophy (St. Augustine's Press, 1999; see p. 33 of this catalogue), Davis argues that, while On Poetics is certainly about tragedy, it has a further concern extending beyond poetry to the very structure of the human soul in its relation to what is, and that Aristotle reveals in the form of his argument the true character of human action. [via]
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Aristotle: Poeticsby D.W. LucasISBN 019814024X (0-19-814024-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Aristotle Poeticsby S.H. ButcherISBN 0486200426 (0-486-20042-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Poetics'Book summary:Best translation of one of the most influential books in all history. Greek and English on facing pages, plus Butcher's famed 300-page exposition and interpretation of Aristotle's ideas. Seminal discussions of art and morality, poetic truth, much more.[via]More editions of Aristotle Poetics:
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Aristotle Poetics/Longinus on the Sublime/Demetrius on Styleby Aristotle, Donald Russell, Demetrius, Longinus, Stephen Halliwell, Dorren C. Innes, W. H. FyfeISBN 0674995635 (0-674-99563-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Poetics/Longinus on the Sublime/Demetrius on Style'Book summary:This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, naturne, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and the reasons behind its enduring relevance.
The essay On the Sublime, usually attributed to "Longinus" (identity uncertain), was probably composed in the first century CE; its subject is the appreciation of greatness ("the sublime") in writing, with analysis of illustrative passages ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato. In this edition, Donald Russell has revised and newly annotated the text and translation by W. Hamilton Fyfe, and supplied a new introduction.
The treatise On Style, ascribed to an (again unidentifiable) Demetrius, was perhaps composed during the secod century BCE. It is notable particularly for its theory and analysis of four distinct styles (grand, elegant, plain, and forceful). Doreen Innes' fresh rendering of the work is based on the earlier Loeb translation by W. Rhys Roberts. Her new introduction and notes represent the latest scholarship.
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Aristotle's on the Art of Poetryby AristotleISBN 0198141106 (0-19-814110-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's on the Art of Poetry'Book summary:This book, "Aristotle, On the art of poetry (1920)", by Aristotle, Bywater, Ingram, 1840-1914, Murray Gilbert, is a replication of a book originally published before 1920. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature. [via]
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, James HuttonISBN 0393952169 (0-393-95216-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's Poetics'Book summary:A work of transcendent importance, both for the history of literary criticism and in its own right[via]More editions of Aristotle's Poetics:
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Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr - Aristotle's Poetics: ISBN 0809005271 (0-8090-0527-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Aristotle Poetics: ISBN 0198141750 (0-19-814175-0)
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Hippocrates G. Apostle, Morris A. Parslow, Elizabeth A. DobbsISBN 0911589090 (0-911589-09-0)
Softcover, Peripatetic Pr
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The Art and Craft of Poetryby Michael J. BugejaISBN 1582971013 (1-58297-101-3)
Softcover, Writers Digest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art and Craft of Poetry'Book summary:This book is about the making of a poet - you. It's written in a particular order to help you develop both yourself as a poet and your poetic works. You begin with a chapter on generating ideas for poems and end with a chapter on the total poem, summarizing key elements in the creation of publishable verse. You'll find three sections in this book: . Journals and Genres: In this section you'll learn how to conceive ideas for poems based on life experience, research and familiarity with traditional genres of poetry. You'll learn how poets use journals to keep track of ideas, and how to develop your ability to contemplate, observe and discover - skills that make superior poets. When you've finished the exercises in this section, you'll have as many as one hundred ideas for poems. Tools of the Trade: Here you'll learn the basics of craft. There are six chapters that focus on voice, line, stanza, title, meter and rhyme. At the end of each chapter you'll write a draft of a poem, focusing on skills learned in that chapter. Formats and Forms: In this section you'll learn about modes and methods of expression, from narrative, lyric and dramatic verse (the traditional formats) to poems in fixed, free and sequence styles (the traditional forms). Here is where you begin work on your drafts, identifying which categories they fall into, studying them and then improving upon them. You'll find dozens of poems by some of the world's most talented contemporary writers. Many of these poets also provide comments about the craft of writing poetry, which adds yet another level of instruction. Also included are poems of great English and American writers, along with work by the author. By including his ownwork, Bugeja is able to illustrate the process of writing poetry in a unique, step-by-step format. What's more, three levels of exercises at the end of each chapter help you generate poems and, ultimately, chapbooks and books. Everything you need to put you on the path of becoming a [via]
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Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetryby Stephen DobynsISBN 1403961476 (1-4039-6147-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry'Book summary:As its title implies, Stephen Dobyns's rigorous collection of essays about poetry celebrates Coleridge's dictum that poetry is the best words in the best order. Dobyns's probing examinations of the elements of poetry--metaphor, pacing, tone--and his study of the evolution of free verse are not for Sunday-sunset versifiers. They are strenuous, meaty, and wholly satisfying fare, intended for serious students of poetry. Dobyns, the author of eight volumes of poetry (and 17 novels), believes, like Baudelaire, that "each poem ... has an optimum number of words [and] an optimum number of pieces of information ... and to go over or under even by one word weakens the whole." Poetry, he says, belongs to the reader, not the writer, and as readers, "at the close of the poem, we must not only feel that our expectations have been met but that our lives have been increased, if only to a small degree." And, if that's not challenge enough for the writer, add to it "that the conclusion of a given piece must appear both inevitable and surprising." The final third of the book comprises chapters on four writers, each of whom represents to Dobyns an ideal in poetry: Rainer Maria Rilke, who Dobyns says worked harder than any other poet to develop and change his work; Osip Mandelstam, an exemplar of moral centeredness; Anton Chekhov, for his sense of personal freedom; and Yannis Ritsos, for his "sense of the mystery that surrounds us." [via]
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Book of Forms : A Handbook of Poeticsby Lewis TurcoISBN 1584650222 (1-58465-022-2)
Softcover, University Press of New England
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Forms : A Handbook of Poetics'Book summary:Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users. [via]
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Book of Forms a Handbook of Poeticsby TurcoISBN 0525472096 (0-525-47209-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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De Arte Poetica Liberby Aristotle, Rudolf V. KasselISBN 0198145640 (0-19-814564-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The End of the Poem: Studies in Poeticsby Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-RoazenISBN 0804730229 (0-8047-3022-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Flexible Lyricby Ellen Bryant VoigtISBN 0820321311 (0-8203-2131-1)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love With Poetryby Edward HirschISBN 0156005662 (0-15-600566-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Joan M. Burnham, Franz Xaver Kappus, Kent NerburnISBN 1577311558 (1-57731-155-8)
Hardcover, New World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.
The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
- Letters to a Young Poet: ISBN 0393310396 (0-393-31039-6)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Letters to a Young Poet: ISBN 0877739463 (0-87773-946-3)
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Letters to a Young Poetby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0679642323 (0-679-64232-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.
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Letters to a Young Poet/the Possibility of Beingby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 1567315208 (1-56731-520-8)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet/the Possibility of Being'Book summary:Letters To A Young Poet... The Possibility of Being. By Rainer Maria Rilke. Two complete works. [via]
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Literary Essays of Ezra Poundby Ezra PoundISBN 0811201570 (0-8112-0157-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Formsby Mark Strand, Eavan BolandISBN 0393321789 (0-393-32178-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms'Book summary:The Making of a Poem is among the best how-to-read-poetry titles. Edited by two of our greatest living poets, one Irish and female, the other American and male, it is both an exploration of poetic forms and an anthology. Eavan Boland and Mark Strand each offer an introduction and then give us a series of chapters devoted to particular verse forms--the sonnet, the ballad, the sestina, the villanelle, blank verse, the stanza--as well as a long section devoted to what they somewhat vaguely call shaping forms. This refers to poetic structures established not by a specific rhyme and/or metrical pattern but by content: the elegy, for example, or the pastoral or ode. The book then concludes with a section on open forms. Each chapter is conveniently subdivided, each topic simply defined: a single page gives "The Ballad at a Glance" (or, for that matter, the pantoum) as a quick overview of the form's structure. A page or two on the history of the form follows, along with a brief comment on "the contemporary context." Then a chronological anthology of poems demonstrates the particular form. In the sonnet's case, for instance, we are treated to 23 brilliantly chosen examples--everything from Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" to Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern" to Mary Jo Salter's playful "Half a Double Sonnet." The section then concludes with another brief analysis of one example. In this spot, the villanelle features Elizabeth Bishop's classic heartbreaker, "One Art," and blank verse gives us far too brief a take on Robert Frost's tantalizing "Directive." Itself worth the price of admission, the poem begins:
Back out of all this now too much for us,
One can readily see both the advantages and the limitations of such a format: definitions are kept lean, at times approaching the sound bite, and the short sentences and brief paragraphs often seem designed for a readership more accustomed to journalism than to the complexities of Dante (see, for example, the one-page history of the sestina). All of this looks like an attempt to reach an audience of both college students and general readers. While more information might help (brief comments on why certain poems in the anthology are defined as odes, pastorals, or elegies, for example), the bottom line is that The Making of a Poem does an excellent job of taking the inexperienced reader inside the mystery of poetic form. In these terms the volume succeeds, giving us a way into the history of poetry, along with an excellent anthology as a starting point for a deeper exploration of the glories of the genre. --Doug Thorpe [via]
Back in a time made simply by the loss
of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more than a house
Upon a farm that is no more than a farm
And in a town that is no more than a town.
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Necessary Angelby Wallace StevensISBN 0394702786 (0-394-70278-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poeticsby Lewis TurcoISBN 0874513812 (0-87451-381-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poeticsby Alex PremingerISBN 1567311520 (1-56731-152-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'Book summary:From abecedarius to zeugma, by way of cywydd, estribillo, Nibelungenstrophe, Tachtigers, and other poetic terms that sound like poetry, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a gold mine for readers and writers of poetry alike. First published in 1965, this tome has evolved to reflect developments in critical thinking and an expanding knowledge of non-Western poetry (without, heaven forfend, being trendy: "a reference work," the editors explain, "must always distance itself from its time while it works to embrace that time"). For this third edition, the editors write, nearly every entry has been changed significantly, and 162 entries have been added. The preface claims coverage of every poetic tradition in the world, and one doesn't doubt it. There's enough material here to keep one browsing well past Yeats's "Second Coming." If that's not enough to quench your poetic thirst, fret not: a detailed bibliography concludes each entry. [via]
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Withinby Stephen FryISBN 1592402488 (1-59240-248-8)
Hardcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within'Book summary:I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.
Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled
Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. Many of us have never been taught to read or write poetry and think of it as a mysterious and intimidating form. Or, if we have been taught, we remember uncomfortable silence when an English teacher invited the class to "respond" to a poem. In The Ode Less Travelled, Fry sets out to correct this problem by giving aspiring poets the tools and confidence they need to write poetry for pleasure.Fry is a wonderfully engaging teacher and writer of poetry himself, and he explains the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. His enjoyable exercises and witty insights introduce the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Aspiring poets will learn to write a sonnet, on ode, a villanelle, a ballad, and a haiku, among others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of, but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try. [via]
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978by Adrienne RichISBN 0393312852 (0-393-31285-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity." [via]More editions of On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978:
On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethkeby Theodore Roethke, Carolyn KizerISBN 155659156X (1-55659-156-X)
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On Poetry and Styleby AristotleISBN 0872200728 (0-87220-072-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Poetry and Style'Book summary:Contains the 'Poetics' and the first twelve chapters of the 'Rhetoric, Book III'. [via]
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The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetryby Dorianne Laux, Kim AddonizioISBN 0393316548 (0-393-31654-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry'Book summary:"We wanted to create a book," say poets Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux in their introduction to The Poet's Companion, "that would focus on both craft and process." The book they have created is an impassioned exploration of poetry writing that addresses subject matter, craft, and the writing life. The reigning wisdom is that poets, like other creative writers, should write what they know. "The trick," say the authors, "is to find out what we know, challenge what we know, own what we know, and then give it away in language." Elsewhere they add that, while "as poets, we need to write from our experience ... that experience may be mental, emotional, and imaginative as well as physical."
Addonizio and Laux are lively spokespersons for the poet's life; they pepper their thoughts with well-chosen poems from their contemporaries--including David Bottoms, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, and Jane Kenyon--and they conclude each short chapter with an invigorating collection of ideas for writing. These "ideas" culminate in a terrific section of writing exercises at book's end: write a poem describing "your most acutely embarrassing moment"; "write a poem of praise for an unlikely group of people, things, ideas"; "write a poem about the last time you saw a loved one you lost." I found myself a bit frustrated by the brevity of the discussions (most chapters are under 10 pages) and a bit put off by the first person plural narrative (do Addonizio and Laux really agree on everything they say they agree on?), but these are mere quibbles. This is a fine book indeed. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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A Poet's Guide to Poetryby Mary KinzieISBN 0226437396 (0-226-43739-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Poet's Guide to Poetry'Book summary:A Poet's Guide to Poetry brings Mary Kinzie's 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 shares her own successful classroom tacticsencouraging readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional.[via]
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 devious.
Part I presents the style, grammar, and rhetoric of poems with a wealth of examples from various literary periods.
Part II discusses the way the elements of a poem are controlled in time through a careful explanation and exploration of meter and rhythm. The "four freedoms" of free verse are also examined.
Part III closes the book with helpful practicum chapters on writing in form. Included here are writing exercises for beginning as well as advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms replete with poetry examples, and an annotated bibliography for further explanatory reading.
This useful handbook is an ideal reference for literature and writing students as well as practicing poets.More editions of A Poet's Guide to Poetry:
Poetic Meter and Poetic Formby Paul FussellISBN 0075536064 (0-07-553606-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Poeticsby AristotleISBN 1419142402 (1-4191-4240-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetics'Book summary:The original, Aristotle's short study of storytelling, written in the fourth century B.C., is the world's first critical book about the laws of literature. Sure, it's 2400 years old, but Aristotle's discussions--Unity of Plot, Reversal of the Situation, Character--though written in the context of ancient Greek Tragedy, Comedy and Epic Poetry, still apply to our modern literary forms. The book is quite short, and Aristotle illuminates his points with clear examples, making the Poetics perfectly readable, the better to impress people at parties when you say, "Of course, as Aristotle says..." [via]
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Poetics Iby Aristotle, Richard JankoISBN 0872200337 (0-87220-033-7)
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Poetics I With the Tractatus Coislinianus: A Hypothetical Reconstruction of Poetics IIby AristotleISBN 0872200345 (0-87220-034-5)
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The Poetics of the New American Poetryby Donald M. Allen, Warren TallmanISBN 0802151132 (0-8021-5113-2)
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The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentaryby Stephen HalliwellISBN 0807842036 (0-8078-4203-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentary'Book summary:Incorporating the best modern work on the Poetics, Halliwell's translation is aimed at those who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ideas along with concise and stimulating guidance. A running commentary explains the structure and detail of Aristotle's argument, attempts to provoke further thought about the work's strengths and weaknesses, and offers suggestions on relating the Poetics to later stages of literary theory and practice. [via]
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The Poetics of Aristotleby Aristotle, Samuel Henry ButcherISBN 140651022X (1-4065-1022-X)
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The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cageby Marjorie PerloffISBN 0810117649 (0-8101-1764-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Poetics of Reverieby Gaston BachelardISBN 0807064130 (0-8070-6413-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetics of Reverie'Book summary:In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relation between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. [via]
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The Poetics of Spaceby Gaston Bachelard, Maria JolasISBN 0807064734 (0-8070-6473-4)
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A Poetry Handbookby Mary OliverISBN 0156724006 (0-15-672400-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Poetry Handbook'Book summary:This slender guide by Mary Oliver deserves a place on the shelves of any budding poet. In clear, accessible prose, Oliver (winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry) arms the reader with an understanding of the technical aspects of poetry writing. Her lessons on sound, line (length, meter, breaks), poetic forms (and lack thereof), tone, imagery, and revision are illustrated by a handful of wonderful poems (too bad Oliver was so modest as to not include her own). What could have been a dry account is infused throughout with Oliver's passion for her subject, which she describes as "a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind." One comes away from this volume feeling both empowered and daunted. Writing poetry is good, hard work. [via]
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The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poetsby Ted KooserISBN 0803259786 (0-8032-5978-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Poetry, Language, Thoughtby Martin Heidegger, Albert HofstadterISBN 0060937289 (0-06-093728-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetry, Language, Thought'Book summary:Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers. "[A] first-rate translation preceded by an excellent introduction . . . [a] very valuable collection."--Review of Metaphysics [via]
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poeticsby Alex PremingerISBN 0691013179 (0-691-01317-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poeticsby Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Alex PremingerISBN 0691062803 (0-691-06280-3)
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Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetryby Louise GluckISBN 0880014423 (0-88001-442-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Proofs and Theoriesby Louise GlückISBN 0880013699 (0-88001-369-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Proofs and Theories'Book summary:Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness and insight that distinguish her poetry. The force of her thought is evident everywhere in these essays, from her explorations of other poets' work to her skeptical contemplation of current literary critical notions such as "sincerety" and "courage." Here also are Glück's revealing reflections on her own education and life as a poet, and a tribute to her teacher and mentor, Stanley Kunitz. Proofs and Theories is the testament of a major poet.
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Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verseby John HollanderISBN 0300088329 (0-300-08832-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse'Book summary:In the grand tradition of Alexander Pope, John Hollander offers this explication/enactment of poetic form. There are sonnets about how to write sonnets, haiku about how to write haiku, and so on. The writing is clever, entertaining, and instructive, which will surprise no one familiar with Hollander's work. What's even more impressive, though, is how often these poems--which could so easily start to feel like homework--engage you emotionally. The sestina about sestinas is beautiful, and, excepting Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," Hollander's villanelle about villanelles is as captivating an example as one will find of the old French fixed form. [via]
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verseby Mary OliverISBN 039585086X (0-395-85086-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse'Book summary:Just as dancing is "the art of moving in accord with a pattern," says Mary Oliver, so is writing metrical verse. "One sorts out the pattern, one relies on it, and relaxes from effort to pleasure." The rules (concerning rhyme, line length, and pattern) are made if not to be deliberately flouted, then at least to be toyed with. Oliver claims to have written this book for both writers and readers of metrical verse, but it is an odd sort of fit for either. A writer might wish for a little more detail; a reader might find too much. The book works best as a kind of refresher course, for those who have forgotten the difference between metaphysical and Petrarchan conceits, between masculine and feminine rhymes, and would like to brush up a bit. Oliver does a wonderful job of explaining why the most common forms of metrical verse came to prevail (for instance, the five-foot line is "the line which is the closest to the breathing capacity of our lungs"), and of nudging us into reading more metrical poetry (nearly half this volume is devoted to works by John Donne, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and others). Blessedly, Oliver reminds us that, though one could get carried away trying new meters and forms, one shouldn't expect to be writing a lot of double ionics anytime soon. "Expect to use one hypersyllabic foot in ten years, perhaps," she says. "Anacrusis, rarely. Catalexis: often. The double ionic: when the next comet flies over." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Selected Writingsby Charles OlsonISBN 0811203352 (0-8112-0335-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writersby Mark Halliday, Allen GrossmanISBN 0801842433 (0-8018-4243-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesyby Philip SidneyISBN 0803204647 (0-8032-0464-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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A Theology for the Social Gospelby Walter RauschenbuschISBN 0664257305 (0-664-25730-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Theology for the Social Gospel'Book summary:A Theology for the Social Gospel is undoubtedly Walter Rauschenbusch's most enduring work. It is here that Rauschenbusch, the father of the social gospel in the United States, articulates the theological roots of social activism that surged forth from mainline Protestant churches in the early part of the twentieth century. Skillfully examining the great theological issues of the Christian faith--sin, evil, salvation, and the kingdom of God--Rauschenbauch offers a powerful justification for the church to fully engage society.
The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writingby Richard HugoISBN 0393309339 (0-393-30933-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing'Book summary:Richard Hugo's The Triggering Town, originally published in 1979, remains one of the freshest and most refreshing treatises on the writing of poetry. While you won't find formality or nicety here, Hugo has the unusual quality of being highly opinionated and yet not at all convinced that what works for him will work for you. Hugo doesn't believe that he can teach you how to write; he believes he can teach you how he writes, and by doing so, teach you "how to teach yourself how to write." And while most writing instructors claim that one can't be a good writer without being a good reader, Hugo claims "that one learns to write only by writing." Hugo's essays are strong-willed and funny and by turns full of bluster and cloaked in modesty. While "a good teacher can save a young poet years by simply telling him things he need not waste time on, like trying to will originality or trying to share an experience in language or trying to remain true to the facts," he writes, "ultimately the most important things a poet will learn about writing are from himself in the process." Above all, Hugo stresses that creative writing is creative because it is a creative act: "if one is writing the way one should, one does not know what will be on the page until it is there." So, he warns, "If you want to communicate, use the telephone." And "Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism." [via]
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Mythby Robert Graves, Grevel LindopISBN 1857542487 (1-85754-248-7)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth'Book summary:Robert Graves, the late British poet and novelist, was also known for his studies of the mythological and psychological sources of poetry. With The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Graves was able to combine many of his passions into one work. While the book is so poetically written that many of the passages amount to prose poems, it is also frequently plot driven enough to feel like a novel, and it is rich with scholarly insight into the deep wells of poetry. Especially fascinating is the chapter in which Graves explores the ancient and ongoing practice of poets' invoking the muse. Graves details the practice in both the Eastern and Western literary traditions, and shows specific similarities and differences among Greek, British, and Irish tales and myths about the muse. Graves has much to offer students of history and myth, but poetry lovers will also be fascinated with The White Goddess. [via]
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La Poetiqueby Aristotle, Roselyne Dupont-Roc, Jean LallotISBN 2020054345 (2-02-005434-5)
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Cartas a Un Joven Poeta/ Letters for a Young Poetby Rainer M¬ RilkeISBN 842063445X (84-206-3445-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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