Designed to teach the craft of writing poetry, this volume discusses the different types of poems, detailing the steps in writing each type, and includes examples of poems by such masters as Milton, Poe, Shakespeare, Rossetti, and Eliot.
This book is very instructive when it comes to such things as line breaks, overcoming writer's block, editing, manuscript layout, and staying motivated. Judith Skillman draws from her own experiences as poet, workshop leader and teacher.
In this book, students of poetry will discover the wide variety of options available to them when they sit down to create their own works.
In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present-titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female ...
Harder to navigate than a bending reed, the canzone has proved the trickiest stream to get written fast, let alone to be read. How quickly did the troubadours read, and what, from this experience, did they gain?
The Art of Revising Poetry is a must-have for aspiring poets and poetry teachers at all levels.
Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world.
This is an essential book for both writers and readers.
The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing In seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity ...
Poet, critic, biographer, and Catholic intellectual Paul Mariani delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays.
This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics.