To Make a Poem

Reference

Turner, Alberta

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

45 Contemporary Poems: The Creative Process (Longman English and Humanities Series)

History

This introductory text encourages students to react to poetry to learn how poems, in all their variety, can be an integral part of their life experience. Employing dialogues and analyses, it discusses the conventional and unconventional elements of a wide range of poems and demonstrates how to 'discover' poetry both personally and in collaboration with others.

Responses to Poetry

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

A Belfry of Knees

Poems deal with mortality, nature, religion, the devil, happiness, and perception

A Belfry Of Knees (Alabama Poetry Series)

Poetry

University Alabama Press

Poems deal with mortality, nature, religion, the devil, happiness, and perception

Univ of Alabama Pr

This is a fine collection from an important and vital American poet. It has wide range yet consistent voice and an imagination that holds up the sky.

Beginning with And: New and Selected Poems (Midwest Writers Series)

Parenting & Relationships

Bottom Dog Press

A poem comes from the same human need as a prayer, a curse, a lullaby, and a keen. How can emotion use language to satisfy its most urgent need, and how can it share and prolong that satisfaction by putting it into poems that will satisfy the same need in others? The answer can be learned and the skill taught. Unlike many other textbooks, this one has no teaching manual and Alberta Turner does not expect those who use it to agree with her interpretations. Each principled is illustrated with detailed analysis of several poems, but it is up to the teachers and students to decide whether it has succeeded or failed. Poetic tastes can't be legislated; they have to creep by underground runners. Although a poem never illustrates only one poetic principle at a time, this book has focused on each separately. Since the book is intended to used by beginning poets, the principles are sequenced from simpler to more complex. As courses in writing poetry range from two-week enrichment programs to full-semester college workshops, the book is arranged so that the course can be shortened or lengthened. This book will work best for flexible, imaginative teachers of flexible imaginative students. A Collegiate Press book

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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