The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing and Reading Poems - Softcover

Meinke, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159732096X ISBN 13: 9781597320962

Publisher: University of Tampa Press, 2012

Synopsis

A practical guide to writing and reading poems by an award-winning poet and teacher.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Meinke is the author of fifteen books of poetry, seven of them in the prestigious Pitt Poetry Series, the most recent of which is The Contracted World (2006). He is Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, Florida, and a faculty member in the Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Tampa. Artist Jeanne Clark Meinke's pen and ink drawings have graced the pages of The New Yorker (over a hundred times), Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Yankee, and literary magazines such as Western Humanities Review and Tampa Review. They have collaborated on several prize-winning books.

Review

This book is so unpretentiously written, so clear in its purpose and so generously illustrated with poetic selections that it is a delight to read. Anyone, poetic or not, can learn a lot effortlessly in the hands of this gifted teacher and poet. --The Tampa Tribune

Meinke offers students of poetry pragmatic strategies for experiencing the sublime as they write poems. . . In this erudite, lucid guide to writing poetry, Peter Meinke achieves what he claims the ideal poet achieves: he is as knowledgeable and skilled as any carpenter, passionate and dignified as any priest. --Melanie Almeder

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Tampa Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 159732096X
• ISBN 13: 9781597320962
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 190
• Illustrator: Meinke Jeanne Clark