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Primer for Poets
Contributor(s): Orr, Gregory (Author)

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ISBN: 0393253929     ISBN-13: 9780393253924
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
Dewey: 808.1
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8" L (0.60 lbs) 336 pages
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A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Using such poems as Theodore Roethke's My Papa's Waltz and Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays, the Primer encourages young writers to approach their thresholds--those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into urgent and persuasive poems. It provides the poet with more than a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold; the four forces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining); tactics of revision; ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry; and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forebears.


Contributor Bio(s): Orr, Gregory: - Gregory Orr has written twelve poetry collections, a memoir, and several books of essays and criticism. Prior to his retirement, he taught for more than forty years at the University of Virginia, where he established its MFA program and served as its first director. The recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Orr lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
 
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