Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems (Imagination, No. 11) (Imagination, 11) - Softcover

Grimm, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880834707 ISBN 13: 9781880834701

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. "ORDERING THE STORM empowers readers to see the poetry collection as an artistic medium in itself, and offers diverse perspectives on the subject. Experienced writers and beginners alike will find inspiration and encouragement in the words of exceptional poets such as Maggie Anderson, Wanda Coleman, and Beckian Fritz Goldberg. This book should be required reading for all graduate student poets, even those who are still in the process of writing their first collection, because it includes essential information on poetic sequencing and useful strategies for examining a manuscript's possibilities. One of the most exciting aspects of the book is the sense of community that readers feel upon exploring each essay. ORDERING THE STORM transforms the task of arranging poems from a solitary undertaking to a collaborative adventure"--Mary Biddinger, Associate Editor of RHINO.

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From the Publisher

When we have a problem, we look for advice -- what do others do? Not so we can replicate their strategies, but so we can listen, consider, begin to make wordless decisions deep in the cerebral mass, It is the conversation that is useful, rather than the single instruction. This quality of conversation, the many voices, is the most valuable thing about this book. . . .

In [these] essays . . . the reader learns not only how a poet thinks when putting together a collection but also what happens when being a poet intersects with time and livelihood -- the poet as teacher, the poet as editor, the poet in change.

-- from the Introduction, by Susan Grimm, editor

From the Back Cover

Ordering the Storm empowers readers to see the poetry collection as an artistic medium in itself, and offers diversive perspectives on the subject. Experienced writers and beginners alike will find inspiration and encouragement in the words of exceptional poets such as Maggie Anderson, Wanda Coleman, and Beckian Fritz Goldberg. This book should be required reading for all graduate student poets, even those who are still in the process of writing their first collection, because it includes essential information on poetic sequencing and useful strategies for examining a manuscript's possibilities. One of the most exciting aspects of the book is the sense of community that readers feel upon exploring each essay. Ordering the Storm transforms the task of arranging poems from a solitary undertaking to a collaborative adventure. -- Mary Biddinger

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1880834707
• ISBN 13: 9781880834701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96