This unique collection of essays offers a myriad of attitudes about prosody by presenting chapters by diverse poets each exploring the history of a particular form, meter, or stanza structure. Haiku, rap, sonnets, and fractal verse are among the topics discussed by the various poets gathered here, including W. D. Snodgrass, Charles Bernstein, and ...
The essays collected here regard how various poets with different aesthetic backgrounds--Adrienne Rich, Anne Stevenson, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock, Charles Olsen , and others-- have expressed themselves in form and free verse. The volume identifies the tenets of New Formalism, and investigates the formal concerns inherent to feminist poetics.
Critical essays about the poet and her work, interviews with Kizer, and poems written in her honor. Kizer's gifts are acknowledged in this book: her humor, her mythological scope, political awareness, satirical wit, feminism, craft, lyricism, her role in shaping literary institutions and her charisma. Carolyn Kizer is a celebration of the poetry ...
Annie Finch's wide reputation precedes her. Her first full book of poems attracted the notice and glowing approval of Robert Pinsky, Carolyn Kizer, the "Bloomsbury Review," and the "Washington Times." Her poems are resonating, musical celebrations of life. Through mastery of rhythm and poetic patterning, this wonderfully gifted poet liberates and ...
Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition ...
"The Body of Poetry" collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. And her ongoing commitment to women's poetry has brought Finch a substantial ...
"The Encyclopedia of Scotland" is a passionate invocation to a Muse at once abundant and excruciating, a performance poem for soul-voice and attendant daemons. At one time performed by Finch with a musical ensemble, this rhythmic feast enacts a complex ritual of self-initiation into the realm of poetry.
Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poetsa remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then ...
Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poetsA[a¬a[ remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then ...
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