Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically - Couverture souple

Rekdal, Paisley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393881989 ISBN 13 : 9780393881981

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2024

Synopsis

An illuminating exploration of how to read and understand poetry and how reading can teach us to write

What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? While there are as many ways to read a poem as there are types of poetry, every poem demands a conscious attention to language. Reading poems forensically helps us bring that attention to our own writing.

In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem―including its diction, form, imagery and rhythm―and construct an interpretation of its meaning. Through close analyses of contemporary and classic poems as well as creative exercises and specific, skill-based questions, this book shows how a poem takes shape and accrues meaning through the intersection of all its lyric elements. Lucid and generous, Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens reveals how to read and write critically and how to appreciate―and achieve―the exhilarating craft of poetry.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paisley Rekdal is the author of ten books of poetry and nonfiction, including Appropriate: A Provocation. She is the director of the American West Center and a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393881989
• ISBN 13: 9780393881981
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walk; n.pederzini@terminaldistribuzione.com; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italie