Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology

by Amorak Huey, W. Todd Kaneko, Joe Wilkins (Editor), Sean Prentiss (Editor)

Overview

Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing prompts. The book guides the reader through a range of poetic modes including:

- Elegy
- Found poems
- Nocturne
- Ode
- Protest poems
- Ars Poetica
- Lyric
- Narrative

Poetry also offers inspiring examples of contemporary poetry covering all the modes and elements discussed by the book, including poems by: Billy Collins, Sherman Alexie, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Natalie Diaz, Traci Brimhall, Terrance Hayes, Richard Blanco, Danez Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Mark Halliday, Eileen Myles, Mary Jo Bang, Tracy K. Smith, Ocean Vuong, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350020153
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/11/2018
Series:	Bloomsbury Writers' Guides and Anthologies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

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).

Table of Contents

Preface: A Word of Welcome for Teachers and Students
Section 1: An Introduction to Poetry
1. Why do we write poems?
2. What is meaning?
3. What does talent have to do with anything?
4. Where do poems come from?
5. What does it mean to be a Poet?

Section 2: The Elements of Poetry
6. Rhetorical Construction
7. The Elements

Section 3: Practicalities
8. The Poetry Workshop
9. Revision
10. Proceed with Caution

Section 4: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetic Modes

Appendix: 75 Poetry Experiments
Further Reading
Index