Poetry: A Survivor's Guide

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For its playful sincerity and idiosyncratic humor, Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide has earned high praise from students, teachers, and readers from around the globe, as it offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a time of great transformation and change, its unconventional advice and application is crucial now more than ever in encouraging meaningful discussion and personal growth. Updated and expanded, the second edition probes a range of strategies for inspiring students and aspiring poets on the ways poetry relates to their own lives. These include the delights and pitfalls of individual meditation, the practicalities and pratfalls of digital learning, and the uses and utility of poetry as a tool of social change. The second edition also includes a curated companion website for teachers, students, and aspiring poets that features poetry examples, writing prompts and exercises, and resources for publishing poetry. Cover Contents Warning Introduction Reading Essentials Poetic Aims Accessibility Biography Close Reading Emotion Pattern and Variation Ineffability Sound Work Rhythm Enjambment The Line The Lyric Metaphor Ambiguity Dickinson Classics Myths Appropriation Great Books Whitman Imagery Roses Prose Poetry Narrative Criticism and Theory Pessoa Political Poetry Aesthetics Reader Response Classroom Reading Poetry Readings Reader’s Block Spirituality Flight Writing First Principles Form Sonnet Identity Self-Expression Memory Sublimation Imitation Avant-Garde Translation Technique The Creative Writing Classroom The Workshop Peer Review Revision Poet-Teachers Professionalization Master of Fine Arts Literary Magazines Publication Series, Sequence Chapbook, Manuscript Collections Book Reviews Writing Conferences Culture Jamming Poetic Practices Moods Depression Meditation Procrastination End Notes Epilogue Acknowledgments Index