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A primer for poets & readers of poetry Cover Image Book Book

A primer for poets & readers of poetry

Orr, Gregory (author.).

Summary: "Guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while introducing the art in an exciting new way...It provides the poet with more than a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold; the four corces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining); tactics of revision; ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry; and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forbears."--Back cover.

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  • ISBN: 0393253929
  • ISBN: 9780393253924
  • Physical Description: print
    325 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

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Formatted Contents Note: Part one: Disorder and order -- Poetry is both simple and complex -- Letting in the disorder -- the lyric invitation -- Part two: Powers of ordering -- Imagination at the threshold -- Lyric and narrative: two fundamental ordering impulses -- Some basic issues -- Part three: Words coming alive in poems -- Words coming alive in poems -- Naming -- Singing -- Saying -- Imagining -- Part four: Why poems? Why poets? -- Ecstasy ad engagement -- A second self in a second world -- Craft and quest.

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