A poet's craft : a comprehensive guide to making and sharing your poetry /
A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. Like textbooks, it includes poetry-writing exercises and discussion of classic and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2012]
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| Summary: | A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. Like textbooks, it includes poetry-writing exercises and discussion of classic and contemporary poems as examples, and is logically organized to provide a complete overview of the elements of poetry writing, from diction to trope to free verse. Like general poetry guides, it has a tone lively and mature enough for the nonundergraduate, and includes sections on journaling and inspiration, revision, publishing, and even how to assemble a poetry book. Like form guides, A Poet's Craft provides an introduction to meter and to writing formal poetry. Finch's book goes further than any form guide now available to give readers a thorough, eclectic, and exciting introduction to poetic form. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xxxv, 695 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780472116935 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0472116932 (cloth : acid-free paper) 9780472033645 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0472033646 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |