Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry

Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry
Author: James Dickey
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781570035289

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Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Robert Bridges.

If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun

If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun
Author: Christopher Citro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781932418743

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Poetry. IF WE HAD A LEMON WE'D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN by Christopher Citro was chosen by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis as the winner of the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Lee Upton had this to say about it: "In Christopher Citro's IF WE HAD A LEMON WE'D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN, the kinetic, continually surprising lines of poems contend with the largest questions. The poem title 'An Emergency Every Day of the Week' suggests the sense of threat that veers through these poems in the midst of their bracing comic energy. For Citro, so much depends on the angle at which we view our experiences. Musing on our daily disarrangements and the ways we attempt to lower the temperature on our worry barometers, he makes wildly inventive, exciting, vital poems, working sideways to reveal what we really ought to see at last."

Poet's Work, Poet's Play

Poet's Work, Poet's Play
Author: Daniel Tobin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2008
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0472069977

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An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-08-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0393050688

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Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."

On the Level Everyday

On the Level Everyday
Author: Ted Berrigan
Publisher: Talisman House Publishers
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) is among his generation's most admired writers. In many respects, the directions followed in contemporary poetry were set out in the courses and workshops he taught at the Naropa Institute, the University of Michigan, Yale University, the City University of New York, the Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Essex in England, Northeastern Illinois University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and elsewhere. On the Level Everyday brings together key examples of his classroom lectures with other pieces, including two important talks delivered at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York. On the Level Everyday provides an introduction not only to Berrigan's poetics but also the problems of surviving as a poet in America today.

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.

Teach Living Poets

Teach Living Poets
Author: Lindsay Illich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Poetry, Modern
ISBN: 9780814152614

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Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers, giving advice on reading contemporary poetry, discovering new poets, and inviting living poets into the classroom, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to become an engaged member of a professional learning community. The #TeachLivingPoets approach, which has grown out of the vibrant movement and community founded by high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith and been codeveloped with poet and scholar Lindsay Illich, offers rich opportunities for students to improve critical reading and writing, opportunities for self-expression and social-emotional learning, and, perhaps the most desirable outcome, the opportunity to fall in love with language and discover (or renew) their love of reading. The many poems included in Teach Living Poets are representative of the diverse poets writing today.

Citizen Illegal

Citizen Illegal
Author: José Olivarez
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1608469557

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“Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today

The Poet's Work

The Poet's Work
Author: Reginald Gibbons
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1989-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226290549

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"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here—Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens—as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking world: Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry. . . . The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide poets: inspiration and craft; the use or the condemnation of science; traditional and 'organic' form."—Alan Williamson, New York Times Book Review

Dictee

Dictee
Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520231122

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This autobiographical work is the story of several women. Deploying a variety of texts, documents and imagery, these women are united by suffering and the transcendance of suffering.