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The art of voice : poetic principles and practice / Tony Hoagland with Kay Cosgrove.

by Hoagland, Tony, author.

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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

9781324002680 (hardcover) :

viii, 168 pages ; 22 cm

Showing the mind in motion -- The sound of intimacy -- The warmth of worldliness -- The tribal bond of the vernacular -- Whose voice is it? -- Voice as speech registers -- Imported voices -- Voices borrowed from the environment -- "Say it. say it".

"An award-winning poet and teacher demystifies poetry's most elusive element. In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an animate thing of shifting balances, tones, and temperatures, by turns confiding, vulgar, bossy, or cunning--but above all, alive. The twelve short chapters of The Art of Voice explore ways to create a distinctive poetic voice, including vernacular, authoritative statement, material imagination, speech register, tone- shifting, and using secondary voices as an enriching source of texture. A comprehensive appendix contains thirty stimulating models and exercises that will help poets cultivate their craft. Mining his personal experience as a poet and analyzing a wide range of examples from Catullus to Marie Howe, Hoagland provides a lively introduction to contemporary poetry and an invaluable guide for any practicing writer"--

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