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A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on innovation and breaking established boundaries, Advanced Poetry introduces you to the poetics shaping the contemporary literary moment, first guiding you through the contexts and principles of these forms using a range of practical examples, before prompting you to pick up the pen yourself.
Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, explicate, and write poetry and includes discussion of: - received traditions and innovative formsKathryn Nuernberger is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at University of Minnesota, USA. She is the author of three poetry collections, RUE (2020), The End of Pink (2016), and Rag & Bone (2011), as well as two essay collections.
Maya Jewell Zeller serves as Associate Professor for Central Washington University, USA, and Affiliate Faculty in the low-residency MFA for Western Colorado University, USA. She is the author of out takes/ glove box (2023), the interdisciplinary collaboration Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (2017), Rust Fish (2011), and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (2015).
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