Imitation in Writing
Author | : Matt Whitling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN | : 9781930443785 |
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Author | : Matt Whitling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN | : 9781930443785 |
Author | : Aaron Smith |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0822982307 |
In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our public lives to distract others from our private grief? Smith's poetry explores that inexplicable tension between what we say and how we actually feel, exposing the complications of intimacy and the limitations of language to bridge those distances between friends, family members, and lovers. What we deny, in the end, may be just what we actually survive. Mortality in Smith's work remains the uncomfortable foundation at the center of our relationship with others, to faith, to art, to love as we grow older, and ultimately, to our own sense of who we are in our bodies in the world. The struggle of this book, finally, is in naming whether just what we say we want is enough to satisfy our primal needs, or are the choices we make to stay alive the same choices we make to help us, in so many small ways, to die.
Author | : David Hawkes |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9629968991 |
The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the “first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.” Tu Fu merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of friendship, from closely observed landscapes to remembered dreams, from the evocation of historical moments to a wry lament over his own thinning hair. Although Tu Fu has been translated often, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes’s classic study, first published in 1967, is the only book that demonstrates in depth how his poems were written. Hawkes presents thirty-five poems in the original Chinese, with a pinyin transliteration, a character-by-character translation, and a commentary on the subject, the form, the historical background, and the individual lines. There is no other book quite like it for any language: a nuts-and-bolts account of how Chinese poems in general, and specifically the poems of one of the world’s greatest poets, are constructed. It’s an irresistible challenge for readers to invent their own translations.
Author | : Poetical Primer |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780469233720 |
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Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0393253937 |
An innovative and accessible guide to poetry-writing by an award-winning poet and beloved professor of poetry. 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.
Author | : Lucy Newlyn |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300256167 |
A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry—itself written entirely in verse How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft—but read together they suggest how poetry can evoke a whole community and its way of life in myriad ways. In a series of beautiful meditations, Newlyn guides the reader through key aspects of poetry, from sonnets and haiku to volta and synecdoche. Avoiding glosses and notes, her poems are allowed to speak for themselves, and show that there are no limits to what poetry can communicate. Newlyn’s timeless verse will appeal to lovers of poetry as well as to practitioners, teachers, and students of all ages. Onomatopoeia You’d play here all day if you had your way— near the stepping-stones, in the clearest of rock-pools, where water slaps and slips; where minnows dart, and a baby trout flop-flips.
Author | : Arthur John Arberry |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Cavanagh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813232465 |
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