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Approaches to poetry : the pre-poem moment / [edited by] Shane Neilson.
TITLE:
Approaches to poetry : the pre-poem moment / [edited by] Shane Neilson.
Publication Date:
2009
Publication Information:
Victoria, B.C. : Frog Hollow Press,
Physical Description:
206 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
This anthology attempts to explain the origins of the original poems by asking 27 poets to create a dialogue with a favourite poem (their own) in the form of an essay. The poets were given free rein in answering; some were short and sharp, others ranged further, thinking of the essay as an opportunity to discover the means of poetry, how biography and image and the right words render themselves into the poem. The results are sometimes essayistic and sometimes indivisible from their poetic origins. Poets can be as various as reaching back to Robert Browning, sideways to the heteronym, or forward to the process of revision. Each of the poets surprised themselves as they trawled their consciousness, discovering not just the elements of their poems, but their process.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780981035444
9780981035451
