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Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry, Paperback by Orr, Gregory, Brand New, F...

Structuring the presentation from life toward art, Orr urges poets to 'turn worlds into words' and then give those words a dramatic structure.

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Book Title	Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry
ISBN	9780393253924
Subject Area	Literary Criticism, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines
Publication Name	Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry
Publisher	Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Item Length	8.3 in
Subject	Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Poetry, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year	2018
Type	Textbook
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Item Height	0.9 in
Author	Gregory Orr
Item Weight	9.7 Oz
Item Width	5.6 in
Number of Pages	336 Pages

Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry, Paperback by Orr, Gregory, ISBN 0393253929, ISBN-13 9780393253924, Brand New, Free shipping in the US"A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides young poets toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their lives, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Structuring the presentation from life toward art, Orr urges poets to 'turn worlds into words' and then give those words a dramatic structure. Using such poems as Theodore Roethke's 'My Papa's Waltz' and Robert Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays,' the Primer encourages young writers to approach their 'thresholds'--those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into urgent and persuasive poems. It provides poets with a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold, the four forces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining), tactics of revision, ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry, and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forebears"--