Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 páginas Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... round and round like a gyro- scope . To gimble ' is to make holes like a gimlet . " " And the wabe'is the grass - plot round a sundial , I sup- pose ? ” said Alice , surprised at her own ingenuity . “ Of course it is . It's called ...
... round in earth's diurnal course , With rocks , and stones , and trees . Note how the r - sound of " rolled round " is reinforced by those in the end rhymes " fears " and " years " and " force " and " course , " and the related l - sound ...
... round , they go round and around , the squeal and the blare and the tweedle of bagpipes , a bugle and fiddles tipping their bellies ( round as the thick- sided glasses whose wash they impound ) their hips and their bellies off balance ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
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