Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 Seiten Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 89
... its line , he provided a summary statement for the poem and at the same time rid the word of its power . Nor should we overlook the anaphora - couplet he created there in the end with the repetition of " the " at the beginnings of the ...
... its way to the lights and stilts of a fish and steak restaurant by the water , and we are its witnesses . It comes to forgive us because we are not thinking of forgiveness . It leaves behind its green palace made of glass , swimming ...
... It's geared toward a commercial market but covers all the high points , including zines . I also urge you to take a look at different mags , especially those whose formats you especially like , and examine them carefully to see what ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
12 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.