Wingbeats II: Exercises & Practice in Poetry - Softcover

 
9780984039951: Wingbeats II: Exercises & Practice in Poetry

Synopsis

Poetry. Writing Reference. WINGBEATS II: EXERCISES & PRACTICE IN POETRY, the eagerly awaited follow-up to the original WINGBEATS, is an exciting collection from teaching poets—58 poets, 59 exercises. Whether you want a quick exercise to jump-start the words or multi-layered approaches that will take you deeper into poetry, WINGBEATS II is for you. The exercises include clear step-by-step instruction and numerous example poems, including work by Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Cleopatra Mathis, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Patricia Smith, William Carlos Williams, and others. You will find exercises for collaborative writing, for bending narrative into new poetic shapes, for experimenting with persona, for writing nonlinear poems. For those interested in traditional elements, WINGBEATS II includes exercises on the sonnet, as well as approaches to meter, line breaks, syllabics, and more. Like its predecessor, WINGBEATS II will be a standard in creative writing classes, a standard go-to in every poet's library.

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About the Author

Scott Wiggerman is the author of two books of poetry, Presence and Vegetables and Other Relationships, and co-editor of several volumes, including WINGBEATS: EXERCISES & PRACTICE IN POETRY (2011) and WINGBEATS II (2014), and LIFTING THE SKY: SOUTHWESTERN HAIKU & HAIGA, both from Dos Gatos Press. His poems have recently appeared in the anthologies THIS ASSIGNMENT IS SO GAY; The Crafty Poet; Forgetting Home: Poems about Alzheimer's; and Between: New Gay Poetry. Wiggerman's sonnets have twice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. He is chief editor for Dos Gatos Press in Austin, Texas, publisher of the Texas Poetry Calendar, now in its seventeenth year.

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