Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies) - Softcover

Amorak Huey; W. Todd Kaneko

 
9781350325890: Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies)

Synopsis

Now fully revamped and expanded, this second edition is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. Mapping out 38 elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement, authors Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing prompts. A guide for readers through a range of poetic modes, this book covers such styles as:
- Elegy
- Found poems
- Nocturne
- Ode
- Protest poems
- Ars Poetica
- Lyric
- Narrative

With a focus on contemporary poems, the anthology now features a truly global line-up of poets and their work that are fully conversant with the elements and craft discussed in the book. Featuring 3 new chapters on fixed forms, Kairos and the value and ethics of imitating published poems, this is the ultimate companion to studying and practicing the craft of poetry.

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About the Author

Amorak Huey teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. He is recipient of a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and author of the poetry collection Ha Ha Ha Thump (2015) and the chapbooks The Insomniac Circus (2014) and A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (2016). His writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, Poet Lore, Oxford American, Essay Daily, Brevity, The Collagist, and many other print and online journals.

W. Todd Kaneko teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. He is the author of The Dead Wrestler Elegies (2014) and his poems, stories and essays have appeared in Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review, Gulf Coast, Barrelhouse, PANK, The Normal School, and many other journals and anthologies. A Kundiman fellow, he co-edits the online literary magazine Waxwing.

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ISBN 10:  1350325880 ISBN 13:  9781350325883
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
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