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The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process
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Description for The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process
Hardcover. A collection of essays and poems by 35 distinguished poets, illuminating the processes of conceiving, drafting, and revising their work Editor(s): Wilner, Eleanor; Manning, Maurice. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneous come together in the process of discovery. Within are contained the work and thoughts of:
- Betty Adcock
- Joan Aleshire
- Debra Allbery
- Elizabeth Arnold
- David Baker
- Rick Barot
- Marianne Boruch
- Karen Brennan
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi
- Michael Collier
- Carl ... Read more
- Stuart Dischell
- Roger Fanning
- Chris Forhan
- Reginald Gibbons
- Linda Gregerson
- Jennifer Grotz
- Brooks Haxton
- Tony Hoagland
- Mark Jarman
- A. Van Jordan
- Laura Kasischke
- Mary Leader
- Dana Levin
- James Longenbach
- Thomas Lux
- Maurice Manning
- Heather McHugh
- Martha Rhodes
- Alan Shapiro
- Daniel Tobin
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Alan Williamson
- Eleanor Wilner
- C. Dale Young
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072033
SKU
V9780472072033
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Ref
99-15
About
Eleanor Wilner is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Tourist in Hell and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair; she has also published a verse translation of Euripides’s Medea and a book on visionary imagination. Her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, Pushcart Prizes, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. A ... Read more
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