This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Both enlightening and encouraging, 'Next Word, Better Word' demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the creative process. STEPHEN DOBYNS Author of over 30 novels and poetry collections, including 'The Church of the Dead Girls, Cold Dog Soup', and 'Cemetery Nights'. Among his many honors and awards are a Melville Cane Award, Pushcart Prizes, National Poetry Series prize, and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His novels have been translated into 20 languages, and his poetry has appeared in the 'Best American Poems' anthology. Dobyns teaches creative writing at Warren Wilson College and has taught at the University of Iowa, Sarah Lawrence College, USA. INDICE: Introduction - Approaching Subject Matter - Joining Form and Content - Reconciling Paradox - Aspects of the Syllable - Line Breaks - Context andCausality - A Sense of Space - Closure - Revision - Moral Inquiry - Bearing Witness - Counterpoint - The Nature of Metaphor -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62180-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 12/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés