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Created Writing: Poetry from New Angles
Paul Agostino, Suffolk Community College

ISBN-10: 0135052807
ISBN-13: 9780135052808

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1996
Format: Paper; 140 pp
Published: 12/07/1995

Suggested retail price: $40.80
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Appropriate for courses in Creative Writing or Poetry Writing.

This new poetry writing book emphasizes poems written by students and small press poets. The text does discuss traditional elements of poetry (i.e., rhyme and poetic forms), but deals more in poems that create their own form and music.

  • presents a unique approach to poetry.

    • devotes the bulk of the book to student poetry and small press poetry.

    • the text suggests that poems needn't be somber, obscure, dull, or only about proper poetic subjects (like nature and death); it suggests that lightness shouldn't be confused with lightweight, that entertainment and clarity are not necessarily marks of shallowness, and that poems should be about anything people think about.

  • author's narrative is written in a personal, engaging style unlike many textbooks, so students learn to enjoy and understand the mechanics of poetry.
  • contains many student-written poems, encouraging students to have fun with words.
  • the book is written with the belief that people can be dissuaded from the idea that poetry can't speak to them; that it can become an enjoyable and popular art form to both read and write.



Introduction.


 1. What Makes a Poem Good?


 2. Where Do Poems Begin?


 3. Editing.


 4. Repetition.


 5. “Sound” Poems.


 6. Surrealism.


 7. Poems “About Issues.”


 8. Short Poems.


 9. Story Poems and Prose Poems.


10. Rhyme and Poetic Forms.


Index.

For Creative Writing - Poetry


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