A poet’s guide to poetry / Mary Kinzie.

Kinzie, Mary.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Part of the series Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing;Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
Notes:

  • Originally published 1999.
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • Introduction: the mind that reads — What the poem thinks: a poetics — The six 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 List of Poems by form.
  • Includes indexes.

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Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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