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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Orr, Gregory, author.     Subjects     Poetry -- Authorship.     Poetry -- Appreciation.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Orr, Gregory, author.       by title:      A primer for poets &...         MARC Display

A primer for poets & readers of poetry / Gregory Orr. by Orr, Gregory, author. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] Subjects Poetry -- Authorship.   Poetry -- Appreciation. ISBN:  0393253929 (paperback) 9780393253924 (paperback) : Description:  325 pages ; 21 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 808.1 Or Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waimanalo P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 808.1 Or Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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