A poet's guide to poetry / Mary Kinzie.

Author/creator Kinzie, Mary
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Descriptionix, 561 pages ; 24 cm.

SeriesChicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing. ^A149359
Contents Writing the poem you read: a view of artistic process -- The elements of relation and resemblance. Line and half-meaning ; Syntax and whole meaning ; Diction and layers in meaning ; Trope and thought ; Rhetoric and speech ; Rhythm as combination -- The elements, controlled in time. Accentual-syllabic meter: the role of stress and interval ; Stanza and rhyme: the role of echo ; Further rhythms in English, counted forms: accentual verse and syllabic verse (including Haiku) ; Further rhythms in English, non-counted forms: the four freedoms of free verse -- Writing in form. Exercises for beginning and advanced writers ; Poetic terms ; Annotated bibliography of further readings.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 483-501) and indexes.
LCCN 98010248
ISBN0226437388 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226437396 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1059.A9 K56 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold