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A Poet's Craft:  A Complete Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry

An accessible, in-depth guide to every aspect of writing poetry

University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming 2010.

From the University of Michigan Press catalog:

This is a major new guide to writing and understanding poetry. "A Poet's Craft" transcends the built-in limitations of current books, combining the best of all three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. Like the textbooks, it includes poetry-writing exercises and discussion of classic and contemporary poems as examples, and is logically organized to provide a complete overview of the elements of poetry-writing, from diction to trope to free verse. Like the general poetry guides, it has a tone lively and mature enough for the non-undergraduate, and includes sectionson journaling and inspiration, revision, publishing, and even how to assemble a poetry book. Like the form guides, "A Poet's Craft" provides a thorough introduction to meter and to writing formal poetry, going further than any form guide now available to give readers a thorough, eclectic, and exciting introduction to poetic form [for those interested only in building their knowledge of poetic form, this section of the book is also published separately, under the title "A Poet's Ear."]

An accessible, in-depth guide to poetic form and meter

University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming 2010.

From the University of Michigan Press Catalog:

Annie Finch's remarkably in-depth introduction to poetic form in English opens a new and exciting world to contemporary poets, providing a thorough, accessible, and exciting introduction to poetic form. From the basic meters and traditional European forms of the ballad and the sonnet to poetic forms brought to English from worldwide cultures and postmodern forms and techniques, "A Poet's Ear" serves as both a survey and a guide to the exploration of poetic form. More diverse and comprehensive than any other form handbook, "A Poet's Ear" will be essential to the serious student of poetry. [A longer book, "A Poet's Craft," is being published simultaneously for those interested in a more comprehensive guide to writing poety and includes a "A Poet's Ear" as well as chapters on additonal aspects of writing poetry, such as inspiration, imagry, diction, tropes, syntax, and revision.

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