A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry by Finch, Annie Ridley Crane

A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780472033645)

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A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry by Finch, Annie Ridley Crane

A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry

$41.95
A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry by Finch, Annie Ridley Crane

A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry

$41.95
Format: Paperback
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A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. Like textbooks, it includes poetry-writing exercises and discussion of classic and contemporary poems as examples, and is logically organized to provide a complete overview of the elements of poetry writing, from diction to trope to free verse. Like general poetry guides, it has a tone lively and mature enough for the nonundergraduate, and includes sections on journaling and inspiration, revision, publishing, and even how to assemble a poetry book. Like form guides, A Poet's Craft provides an introduction to meter and to writing formal poetry. Finch's book goes further than any poetry-writing guide now available to give readers a thorough, eclectic, and exciting introduction to every aspect of the art of poetry.

Author: Annie Ridley Crane Finch
ISBN-10: 0472033646
ISBN-13: 9780472033645
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2012
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2012
By Annie Ridley Crane Finch
By Annie Ridley Crane Finch
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Annie Finch, poet, editor, and critic, has published twenty books of poetry and poetics including Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self, An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry, and The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse. Based in New York, Dr. Finch travels widely to teach and perform her poetry and is the founder of PoetryWitchCommunity.org, where she teaches poetry, meter, and more. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.

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