Writing and understanding poetry for teachers and students : a heart's craft

Writing and understanding poetry for teachers and students : a heart's craft / Suzanne Keyworth and Cassandra Robison.

This book can be used by instructors as the structure for their literature/poetry classes, it can be studied and enjoyed by lovers of poetry to increase their knowledge of the fundamentals, or it can be used in an English, reading, or creative writing classroom. Throughout the book powerful poems se...

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Main Authors: Keyworth, Suzanne, 1948- (Author), Robison, Cassandra (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Poetry > Authorship.
Poetics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Poetics
Poetry > Authorship
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Some Initial Thoughts on Poets and Poetry, Workshopping Poems, and the Creative Process
  • Chapter 2: Beyond the Ordinary
  • Chapter 3: Imagery
  • Chapter 4: Metaphors and Symbols
  • Chapter 5: Line Endings, Turns, and Epiphanies
  • Chapter 6: The Speaker and the Reader
  • Chapter 7: Narrative Poetry
  • Chapter 8: Communicating Emotional Truths and Avoiding Melodrama
  • Chapter 9: Writing in Other Voices
  • Chapter 10: Sound Devices
  • Chapter 11: Punctuation
  • Chapter 12: Effective Titles
  • Chapter 13: Nature as Muse
  • Chapter 14: The Prose Poem
  • Chapter 15: Writing in Various Forms
  • Chapter 16: Portfolios, Presentations, Aural Modeling, and Syllabi
  • Brief Literary Biographies of the Poets.

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