The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555974749)

The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in the Art Of series are not strictly manuals, but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people think they already know but don't really know.

Donald Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies, Revell writes. Beginning in the senses, imagination senses farther, senses more. Using examples from his own poetry
and translations and from Blake and Thoreau to Ronald Johnson and John Ashbery, Revell's The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye takes the writer beyond the workshop and into the world of vision.

Author: Donald Revell
ISBN-10: 1555974740
ISBN-13: 9781555974749
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 07/24/2007
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.98h x 5.08w x 0.53d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/18/2007 pg. 46
Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 135