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A Poet's Guide to Poetry
Contributor(s): Kinzie, Mary (Author)

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 ISBN: 0226923061     ISBN-13: 9780226923062
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE: $23.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry
Dewey: 808.1
LCCN: 2012049638
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing
Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6.1" W x 8.94" L (1.71 lbs) 584 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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In A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie also shares her own successful classroom tactics that encourage readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional.

The three parts of A Poet's Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most subtle. The second part carefully examines meter and rhythm, as well as providing a theoretical and practical overview of free verse. The final section offers helpful chapters on writing in form. Rounding out the volume are writing exercises for beginning and advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms, and a bibliography of further reading.

For this new edition, Kinzie has carefully reworked the introductory material and first chapter, as well as amended the annotated bibliography to include the most recent works of criticism. The updated guide also contains revised exercises and adjustments throughout the text to make the work as lucid and accessible as possible.

Contributor Bio(s): Kinzie, Mary: - Mary Kinzieis a poet and critic. She is professor of English and director of creative writing at Northwestern University, where she teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison Poetry Award.
 
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