Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 pàgines Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... William Carlos Williams , Carl Sandburg , and E. E. Cummings , among others . A brief encounter with a poem by each of them is in order . If ever anyone lived up to that famous line of William Carlos Williams , " The pure products of ...
... William Carlos Williams ( 1883- 1963 ) was born in Rutherford , New Jersey , of an American father and a Puerto Rican mother ; hence there's a Latino dimension to him , which makes him of particular interest nowadays . He was to make ...
... Williams , William Carlos . “ The Red Wheelbarrow ” and “ The Dance ” by William Carlos Williams , from COLLECTED POEMS , VOLUME I , 1909-1939 , copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corporation . Reprinted by permission of New ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Copyright | |
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