Making Poems: Forty Poems With Commentary by the Poets - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1438431759 ISBN 13 : 9781438431758

Editeur : Excelsior Editions, 2010

Synopsis

Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.

This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to think of the poem as having sprung spontaneously, Athena-like, from the writer's head. By exposing readers to the finished product as well as the poet's own account of the poem's creation, Making Poems offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on the poetic process that will fascinate both beginning and established writers. The book also affords poetry instructors an opportunity to demonstrate to their students the ways in which poems can originate from seemingly mundane and unlikely sources.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Todd F. Davis is Associate Professor of English at Penn State at Altoona. He is coauthor (with Kenneth Womack) of Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory and coeditor (with Womack) of Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (also published by SUNY Press), Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, and The Critical Response to John Irving. He is also the author of a book of poetry, Ripe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Excelsior Editions
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438431759
• ISBN 13: 9781438431758
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Éditeur: Davis Todd F, Murphy Erin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible