What Is Poetry?

What Is Poetry? PDF Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844287635
Category : Language arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country's leading children's poets.Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invaluable handbook, he shares this knowledge and experience in book form for the very first time. Starting with a detailed analysis of a number of classic poems, he offers a real "writer's guide" to writing and performing poems, as well as a wealth of technical information and tips. He then takes a fascinating look at a selection of his own poems and explains how and why he wrote them. Complete with an appendix of poets and useful websites, and beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Jill Calder, this is the only guide to poetry children and teachers will ever need.

What Is Poetry?

What Is Poetry? PDF Author: Trudi Strain Trueit
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1467736678
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
What is poetry? How is it different from other kinds of writing? Find out what makes a poem a poem. See how poets organize their poems and what special writing tools they use, such as rhythm, rhyming, and alliteration. Then explore different styles of poems, including haiku, free verse, concrete poems, limericks, acrostic poems, and more!

A Poet's Glossary

A Poet's Glossary PDF Author: Edward Hirsch
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547737467
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 683

Book Description
A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.

Naming the Unnameable

Naming the Unnameable PDF Author: Michelle Bonzcek Evory
Publisher: Open Suny Textbooks
ISBN: 9781942341505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for the New Generation assembles a wide range of poetry from contemporary poets, along with history, advice, and guidance on the craft of poetry. Informed by a consideration to the psychology of invention, Michelle Bonczek Evory¿s writing philosophy emphasizes both spontaneity and discipline, teaching students how to capture the chaos in our memories, imagination, and bodies with language, and discovering ways to mold them into their own cosmos, sculpt them like clay on a page. Exercises aim to make writing a form of play in its early stages that gives way to more enriching insights through revision, embracing the writing of poetry as both a love of language and a tool that enables us to explore ourselves and understand the world. Naming the Unnameable promotes an understanding of poetry as a living art and provides ways for students to involve themselves in the growing contemporary poetry community that thrives in America today.

The Hatred of Poetry

The Hatred of Poetry PDF Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0865478201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Four Quartets

Four Quartets PDF Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547539703
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

Poetry as Research

Poetry as Research PDF Author: David Ian Hanauer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027233411
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 181

Book Description
"Elegantly written, convincingly argued, and interspersed with hauntingly beautiful and poignant poems written by his ESL students, Hanauer's book draws attention to the unexplored potential of poetry writing in a second language classroom." Aneta Pavelenko, Temple University --

What is Poetry? (just Kidding, I Know You Know)

What is Poetry? (just Kidding, I Know You Know) PDF Author: Anselm Berrigan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696393
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A selection of interviews and rare photos from the legendary St. Mark's Poetry Project for its 50th anniversary season.
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