A Poet's Craft : A Complete Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry

Annie Finch

ISBN 10: 0472116932 / ISBN 13: 9780472116935

Published by The University Of Michigan Press Feb 2012, 2012

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Neuware - A major new guide to writing and understanding poetry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Poet's Craft : A Complete Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry
• Publisher: The University Of Michigan Press Feb 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472116932
• ISBN 13: 9780472116935
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 237W x 159H x 43D millimeters 237 millimeters width by 159 millimeters height by 43 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1112 grams

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Synopsis

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 poetry-writing guide now available to give readers a thorough, eclectic, and exciting introduction to every aspect of the art of poetry.

About the Author

Annie Finch, poet, editor, and critic, has published twenty books of poetry and poetics including Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self,  An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry, and The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse.  Based in New York, Dr. Finch travels widely to teach and perform her poetry and is the founder of PoetryWitchCommunity.org, where she teaches poetry, meter, and more. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.