After New Formalism

After New Formalism PDF Author: Annie Finch
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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In recent years, the New Formalist movement has been growing and changing quickly, as poets from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives have found in formal poetics a tool of great potential range and power. The common perception of New Formalism's methods and goals, however, has altered much more slowly. "After New Formalism" is part of an expanding conversation on the formal possibilities of contemporary poetry and on the implications of formalism for poetic history, practice, and theory. Contributors include Dana Gioia, Mark Jarman, David Mason, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock, and Adrienne Rich, among others. From the Introduction "Over the years the mission and focus of this book changed to include thoughtful essays by poets engaging with formalism from outside its confines, as well as by younger poets who came to formalism with a more theoretical bent than their elders. While some of the essays here come much closer than others to my own vision of a "multiformalism" that truly encompasses the many formal poetic traditions, including experimental traditions, now native to the United States, this collection of thoughts on form by poets contains fresh insights about the implications of formalism for poetic history, practice, and theory." Annie Finch is the author of "The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse" (Michigan), and the editor of "A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women "(Story Line, 1994). She teaches creative writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

After New Formalism

After New Formalism PDF Author: Annie Finch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Book Description
In recent years, the New Formalist movement has been growing and changing quickly, as poets from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives have found in formal poetics a tool of great potential range and power. The common perception of New Formalism's methods and goals, however, has altered much more slowly. "After New Formalism" is part of an expanding conversation on the formal possibilities of contemporary poetry and on the implications of formalism for poetic history, practice, and theory. Contributors include Dana Gioia, Mark Jarman, David Mason, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock, and Adrienne Rich, among others. From the Introduction "Over the years the mission and focus of this book changed to include thoughtful essays by poets engaging with formalism from outside its confines, as well as by younger poets who came to formalism with a more theoretical bent than their elders. While some of the essays here come much closer than others to my own vision of a "multiformalism" that truly encompasses the many formal poetic traditions, including experimental traditions, now native to the United States, this collection of thoughts on form by poets contains fresh insights about the implications of formalism for poetic history, practice, and theory." Annie Finch is the author of "The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse" (Michigan), and the editor of "A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women "(Story Line, 1994). She teaches creative writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Rebel Angels

Rebel Angels PDF Author: Mark Jarman
Publisher: Story Line Press
ISBN: 9780934257817
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first anthology to present the most exciting and unexpected new movement in American poetry-the revival of rhyme, meter, and narrative among poets-Rebel Angels gathers the best work of twenty-five poets who write memorably and movingly in a dazzling variety of forms-some traditional, some newly minted-out of the diverse experiences of their generation. Contributors include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Bruce Bawer, Rafael Campo, Tom Disch, Frederick Feirstein, Dana Gioia, Emily Grosholz, R.S. Gwynn, Marilyn Hacker, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hudgins, Paul Lake, Sydney Lea, Brad Leithauser, Phillis Levin, Charles Martin, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock, Wyatt Prunty, Mary Jo Salter, Timothy Steele, Frederick Turner, Rachel Wetzsteon, and Greg Williamson.

Hapax

Hapax PDF Author: A.E. Stallings
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810151715
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Recipient of the 2008 Poet’s Prize Recipient of the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks Award Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of "Aftershocks," this book explores what does and does not survive its "gone moment"-childhood ("The Dollhouse"), ancient artifacts ("Implements from the Grave of the Poet"), a marriage's lost moments of happiness ("Lovejoy Street"). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years. Her musical lyrics cover a range of subjects from love and family to characters and themes derived from classical Greek sources ("Actaeon" and "Sisyphus"). Employing sonnets, couplets, blank verse, haiku, Sapphics, even a sequence of limericks, Stallings displays a seemingly effortless mastery of form. She makes these diverse forms seem new and relevant as modes for expressing intelligent thought as well as charged emotions and a sense of humor. The unique sensibility and linguistic freshness of her work has already marked her as an important, young poet coming into her own.

The Book of Forms

The Book of Forms PDF Author: Lewis Turco
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650225
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
Companion to the Book of Literary Terms, an indispensable handbook, revised and updated for today's users.

Can Poetry Matter?

Can Poetry Matter? PDF Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into account. --World Literature Today.

Bundle O' Tinder

Bundle O' Tinder PDF Author: Rose Kelleher
Publisher: Waywiser Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Book Description
Rose Keller's 'Bundle O'Tinder' is a debut collection of unusual thematic diversity. It is also a collection of formal resourcefulness, written by a poet immersed in tradition but not in thrall to it.

The Short Story

The Short Story PDF Author: Charles May
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136747885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general history of the genre, he moves on to focus on the nineteenth-century when the modern short story began to come into focus. From there he moves on to later nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century formalism and finally to the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's history, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.

Missing Measures

Missing Measures PDF Author: Timothy Steele
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557281265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Examines the departure from meter and rhyme in modern poetry and the increased use of free verse

A Formal Feeling Comes

A Formal Feeling Comes PDF Author: Annie Finch
Publisher: Wordtech Communications
ISBN: 9781933456959
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A collection of poems by women belonging to the New Formalism movement. One of their number, Sonia Sanchez, writes: "I say, step back sisters, we're rising from the dead, / I say, step back Johnnies, we're dancing on our heads."

The New Criticism

The New Criticism PDF Author: John Crowe Ransom
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 9780837190792
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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