Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry - Couverture souple

Nims, John Frederick; Mason, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0073031801 ISBN 13 : 9780073031804

Editeur : McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1999

Synopsis

This collection of classic and contemporary poems also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-colour reproductions of great works of art. This edition incorporates many new poets and expanded coverage of women and ethnic poets.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

David Mason grew up in Bellingham, Washington and has lived in Colorado, Alaska, New York, Pennsylvania and Greece. From 1989 to 1998, he taught at Moorhead State University, and he has since joined the faculty of his alma mater, The Colorado College. He received his doctorate from The University of Rochester. His two prize-winning collections of poems are The Buried Houses and The Country I Remember, both from Story Line Press. Chapbooks include Small Elegies and Land Without Grief. With Mark Jarman, he is co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. He has also published a book of essays, The Poetry of Life, and serves as an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review. In 1997, he was a Fulbright Fellow to Greece. He is married to Anne Lennox, a photographer, and has a stepdaughter, Darcy.

Présentation de l'éditeur

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0073031801
• ISBN 13: 9780073031804
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 672
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible