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Annie Finch - A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry - 9780472116935 - V9780472116935
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A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry

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Description for A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry Hardcover. A guide to writing and understanding poetry. It includes poetry-writing exercises and discussion of classic and contemporary poems as examples, and is logically organized to provide an overview of the elements of poetry-writing, from diction to trope to free verse. It also includes sections on journaling and inspiration, revision, and publishing. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1066.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472116935
SKU
V9780472116935
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Annie Finch
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 ... Read more

Reviews for A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry
"Personal, erudite, and comprehensive, this volume is really many books in one, the product of many years' work and a lifetime of serious engagement with poetry. Sharing...writing exercises, study questions, discussions of poems for literary insight and excellence—the book presents detailed analyses of everything from metaphor to meter, from rhyme to revision." —B. Wallenstein, CUNY City College, Choice
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