Making Poems

This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to think of the poem as having sprung spontaneously, Athena-like, from the writer's head. By exposing readers to the finished product as well as the poet's own account of the poem's creation, Making Poems offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on the poetic process that will fascinate both beginning and established writers. The book also affords poetry instructors an opportunity to demonstrate to their students the ways in which poems can originate from seemingly mundane and unlikely sources.

ISBN 1438431767   Pages 204 ISBN13 9781438431765 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 313 Publisher State University of New York Press   Published in Albany, NY Imprint State University of New York Press   Series title Excelsior Editions Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 03 Jan 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 808.1   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education

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