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ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products.   Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase.   Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code.   Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase.   -- The gold standard of poetry writing books, Writing Poems, 8/e is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide that will help aspiring poets to create meaningful works.   0321858700 / 9780321858702 Writing Poems Plus NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0205883583 / 9780205883585 NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Valuepack Access Card 0205176054 / 9780205176052 Writing Poems  

Table of Contents:
Contents Before Designing the Course: A Preface to the Teacher  xix 1   Starting Out: An Introduction  1 Word Magic  4 Diction  4 Syntax  8 Pruning and Weeding  10 Clarity, Obscurity, and Ambiguity  12 Questions and Suggestions  14 Poems to Consider    Barter          RAVI SHANKAR                                                                                                                                                   Mule Hour          TERRANCE HAYES         Famous         NAOMI SHIHAB NYE                                                                                                                                                                        Abstraction         GEOFFREY BROCK                                                                                                                                                                             Reading Sonnevi on a Tuesday Night  WAYNE MILLER   PART I: FORM  2   Verse  25 Line  27 Form  29 Balance  33 Questions and Suggestions  37 Poems to Consider   the rites for Cousin Vit  GWENDOLYN BROOKS                                                                                                                                                                      Po]tolka (Prague)   CHRISTIAN WIMAN                                                                                                                           Form  HEATHER MCHUGH           What The Mosquito Gives    AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL         Traveling through the Dark   William Stafford Unconditional Election   David Baker   3   Making the Line (I)  44 Meter  46 Stress  47 Speech, Rhythm, and the Line Line Length Questions and Suggestions  60 Poems to Consider   Sisyphus   JAY LEEMING Signs   Gjertrud Schnackenberg What We Know About Ghost Images                                                                         DEBORAH BOGEN                                                                                                                                                   Eva Braun at Berchtesgaden  VICTORIA CHANG Her Web  66 Erin Belieu One Art  67 Elizabeth Bishop   4   Making the Line (II)  69 Longer Lines  70 Lines of Mixed Length  72 Shorter Lines  74 Syllabics Prose Poems  78 Questions and Suggestions  80 Poems to Consider   Meanwhile RICHARD SIKEN        Balloons   Sylvia Plath Don’t Look Back KAY RYAN The Guides  RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ the fever    SIMONE MUENCH Gruss  DEAN YOUNG                                                                                                                               5   The Sound (and Look) of Sense  89 Visible Form  91 Repetition  95 Alliteration and Assonance  97 Rhyme  98 Onomatopoeia  101 Questions and Suggestions  102 Poems to Consider   Dear Petrarch  104 Cate Marvin             Do Not Disturb              MARY RUEFLE  Reapers  109  Jean Toomer  January II  106  Charles Wright  After the Trial  107  Weldon Kees   PART II: CONTENT 6   Subject Matter  113 Subjects and Objects  115 Memory  120 Imagery  122 Resonant Detail  125 Questions and Suggestions  128 Poems to Consider   Bitch  132 Carolyn Kizer The Man. His Bowl. His Raspberries. CLAUDIA RANKINE The Tropics in New York  133 Claude McKay             Chrysanthemums               SPENCER REECE The Beautician  130 Thom Gunn   7   Metaphor  136 Figuratively Speaking  139 A Name for Everything  143 Pattern and Motif  145 Conceits  148 Metaphoric Implication  150 Questions and Suggestions  152 Poems to Consider   The Empire in the Air  153 Kevin Prufer My Arms PAUL GUEST         Rowing                                                                                                           JEFFREY HARRISON The Way Things Work  JORIE GRAHAM                                                                                                                          Blue  159 Reginald Shepherd   8   Tale, Teller, and Tone  160 Narration, Pacing, and Tense  162 Persona  165 Point of View  168 Tone  172 Questions and Suggestions  174 Poems to Consider   Personals  175 C. D. Wright [writing for a young man on the redline train: “to his boy mistress”]                  D.A. POWELL Bleeder STEPHEN DOBYNS                                                                                                                                                              Winter   MARIE PONSOT The Wood-Pile  176 Robert Frost   9   The Mysteries of Language  182 The Sense of Nonsense  183 The Logic of the Analogic  188 Ordinary Strangeness  191 Translation  193 Questions and Suggestions  195 Poems to Consider   Hunger  YASSER ABDEL-LATIF Remember the Trains?  200 Martha Collins A Hunger So Honed  202 Tracy K. Smith Everything  203 Srikanth Reddy The Moon  jaime sabines Part III: Process    10    Finding the Poem  207 Imitation and Models  208 Sources and “Truth”  212 Emotion and Thought  214 Getting into Words  218 Keeping a Poem Going  220 Questions and Suggestions  223 Poems to Consider   The Other Cold War  227 Adrian Blevins             Realism             CZESLAW MILOSZ Off-Season at the Edge of the World   DEBORA GREGER Visitation  228 Kathy Fagan Song  228 Brigit Pegeen Kelly   11   Devising and Revising  231 Exploring  231 Focusing  235 Shaping  237 Creating Community  Submitting Your Work  Questions and Suggestions  246 Poems to Consider   Workshop  271 Billy Collins Immediate Revision  252 Chase Twichell Muse KIM ADDONIZIO The Next Poem  275 Dana Gioia Winter Conception  273 Eleanor Wilner Appendix I: Questions for Discussing and Revising Poetry  277 Appendix II: A Brief Glossary of Forms  283 Acknowledgments  295 Index of Authors and Titles  301 Index of Terms  307  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321858702
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Longman Inc
  • Depth: 19
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 363 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0321858700
  • Publisher Date: 28 Oct 2012
  • Binding: SA
  • Edition: 8 Rev ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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