How a Poem Moves (eBook)

A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry

Adam Sol (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
216 Seiten
ECW Press (Verlag)
978-1-77305-317-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse Developed from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a quick read or to be grouped together as a curriculum. Though How a Poem Moves is not a textbook, it demonstrates poetry's range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions. This illuminating book is for readers who are afraid they 'don't get' poetry but who believe that, with a welcoming guide, they might conquer their fear and cultivate a new appreciation.

Autor

Adam Sol is an award-winning poet, writer, and teacher. He has published four collections of poetry, including Crowd of Sounds, which won Ontario’s Trillium Book Award. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife, Rabbi Yael Splansky, and their three sons.

Inhalt

Introduction
How a Poem Puts Skin on a Mystery: Philip Levine, "Making Light of It”
How a Poem Shapes Memory: Deborah Digges, "Stealing Lilacs from the Cemetery”
How a Poem Articulates a Feeling: C.K. Williams, "Love: Beginnings”
How a Poem Crystalizes an Image: Yusef Komunyakaa, "Yellowjackets”
How a Poem Makes Meaning with Music: Elise Partridge, "Domestic Interior: Child Watching Mother”
How a Poem Snapshots a Moment of Drama: Tiphanie Yanique, "My brother comes to me”
How a Poem Seduces Us with Outlandishness: Diane Seuss, "Free beer”
How a Poem Cooks Up Dark Insight: Philip Metres, "Recipe from the Abbasid”
How a Poem Pushes Us Away and Beckons Us Closer: Marilyn Dumont, "How to Make Pemmican”
How a Poem Wrestles with its Inheritance: Rahat Kurd, "Ghazal: In the Persian”
How a Poem Lives Between Languages: Natalia Toledo, trans. Clare Sullivan, "Flower that Drops Its Petals”
How a Poem Invites Us to Praise: Ross Gay, "Ode to Drinking Water from My Hands”
How a Poem Answers Some Questions But Not Others: Amber McMillan, "The Light I’ve Seen in Your Hair I Have Found in My Own Hands”
How a Poem Clarifies Its Blur: Jeff Latosik, "Aubade Photoshop”
How a Poem Changes As We Read: Ali Blythe, "Shattered”
How a Poem Will (Not) Save Us: Raoul Fernandes, "Life With Tigers”
How a Poem Loves a Misunderstanding: Richard Siken, "Dots Everywhere”
How a Poem Mistrusts Its Idols: Cassidy McFadzean, "You’ll Be the Skipper, I’ll Be the Sea”
How a Poem Doesn’t Dish: Damian Rogers, "Ode to a Rolling Blackout”
How a Poem Impersonates a Tomato: Oliver Bendorf, "Queer Facts About Vegetables”
How a Poem Seeks New Models: Shannon Maguire, from Myrmurs
How a Poem Makes Itself Out of Unusual Materials: Madhur Anand, "Especially in a Time”
How a Poem Chooses the Apocalypse Behind Curtain #3: Jennifer L. Knox, "The New Let’s Make a Deal”
How a Poem Assembles a Smashed Record for Posterity: George Murray, from "#DaydreamBereaver”
How a Poem Tries to Connect Us, Despite the Obstacles: Donna Stonecipher, "Model City [4]”
How a Poem Welcomes Us to the Neighborhood: Bren Simmers, "[night of nesting dolls]”
How a Poem Evokes Wonder: Sarah Holland-Batt, "Botany”
How a Poem Reaches for Transcendence: Eric Pankey, "Ash”
How a Poem Mourns: Don Paterson, "Mercies”
How a Poem Confronts the Limitations of Our Empathy: Soraya Peerbaye, "Trials”
How a Poem Tries to Get Into It: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, "Little Song”
How a Poem Chattily Wonders About Life’s Purpose: Ulrikka S. Gernes, "On H. C. Andersen Boulevard During Rush Hour”
How a Poem Transforms a Stroll into a Ceremony: Joy Harjo, "Walk”
How a Poem Imperfectly Reconciles Complexity: Liz Howard, "A Wake”
How a Poem Haunts: Norman Dubie, "Lines for Little Mila”
Conclusion
Acknowledgements

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Anthology • articulates • award winner • Canadian • C.K. Williams • Contemporary poetry • deborah diggs • feelings • flying books • Guidebook • how to write poems • interpreting poetry • komunyakaa • Liberal Arts • Memory • phillip levine • Short List • teachable • University
• ISBN-10: 1-77305-317-5 / 1773053175
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77305-317-2 / 9781773053172