Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies) - Hardcover

Nuernberger, Kathryn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 135022457X ISBN 13: 9781350224575

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Synopsis

A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on innovation and breaking established boundaries, Advanced Poetry introduces you to the poetics shaping the contemporary literary moment, first guiding you through the contexts and principles of these forms using a range of practical examples, before prompting you to pick up the pen yourself. Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, explicate, and write poetry and includes discussion of: - received traditions and innovative forms - confessional and epistolary poetry - aesthetic experimentation with voice - methods and theories developed by early Surrealists -deep image and the poetics of spells - ecopoetics & poetry of place - writing the body based on queer theory and disability studies - docupoetics and lyric research - racial imaginaries and poetics of liberation - digital poetics - writing in community with other poets and collaborative, interdisciplinary projects - revision processes and putting together a collection or chapbook -advice on writing artist statements and other professional materials Bringing together a comprehensive craft guide with a carefully collated anthology showcasing the (existing) limits of what is possible in poetry, this text explores how poetry since the 20th century has embraced traditional structures, borrowed from other disciplines, and invented wildly new forms. With close readings, writing prompts, excerpts of interviews from key figures in the field and a supplementary companion website, this is the definitive text for any poet looking to continue their poetic journey.

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About the Authors

Kathryn Nuernberger is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at University of Minnesota, USA. She is the author of three poetry collections, RUE (2020), The End of Pink (2016), and Rag & Bone (2011), as well as two essay collections.

Maya Jewell Zeller serves as Associate Professor for Central Washington University, USA, and Affiliate Faculty in the low-residency MFA for Western Colorado University, USA. She is the author of out takes/ glove box (2023), the interdisciplinary collaboration Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (2017), Rust Fish (2011), and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (2015).

Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014).

Joe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in Georgia Review, Harvard Review and Slate among many other periodicals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 135022457X
• ISBN 13: 9781350224575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282