A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry
By:Gregory Orr
Published on 2018-02-13 by W. W. Norton & Company

An innovative and accessible guide to poetry-writing by an award-winning poet and beloved professor of poetry. A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Using such poems as Theodore Roethke’s |My Papa’s Waltz| and Robert Hayden’s |Those Winter Sundays,| the Primer encourages young writers to approach their |thresholds|—those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into urgent and persuasive poems. 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 forces 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 forebears.

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