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A Poet's Guide to Poetry Paperback – 8 July 2013

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In A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie also shares her own successful classroom tactics that encourage readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional.

The three parts of A Poet's Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most subtle. The second part carefully examines meter and rhythm, as well as providing a theoretical and practical overview of free verse. The final section offers helpful chapters on writing in form. Rounding out the volume are writing exercises for beginning and advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms, and a bibliography of further reading.

For this new edition, Kinzie has carefully reworked the introductory material and first chapter, as well as amended the annotated bibliography to include the most recent works of criticism. The updated guide also contains revised exercises and adjustments throughout the text to make the work as lucid and accessible as possible.

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  1. Print length
    584 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
  4. Publication date
    8 July 2013
  5. Dimensions
    15.24 x 3.99 x 22.86 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0226923061
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0226923062
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Mary Kinzieis a poet and critic. She is professor of English and director of creative writing at Northwestern University, where she teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison Poetry Award.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; 2nd ed. edition (8 July 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 584 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226923061
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226923062
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 3.99 x 22.86 cm
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  • M. Braithwaite
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2016
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    Wow.What a huge collection of ideas
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  • my2c
    5.0 out of 5 stars Call me a dweeb...
    Reviewed in the United States on 28 June 2023
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    Any question I have about established poetry, here it is. In spades. To learn or not to learn. Big red heart here. Second copy.
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  • Kay F. Klinkenborg
    4.0 out of 5 stars Kinzie's "Poet's Guide to Poetry" is above par.
    Reviewed in the United States on 14 March 2014
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    This extensive guide to writing poetry is well done. Content, progression of skill and experience guides the novice forward and there is more than enough wisdom and guidance for the published poet as well. This will remain as a life-long referral source for me as a poet.
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  • raindancer
    1.0 out of 5 stars Stodgy, smug and practically unreadable
    Reviewed in the United States on 21 March 2017
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    I am 100 pages into this book and wish I had never purchased it. Ms. Kinzies's seems determined to drive even the most ardent lover of the poetic arts to tear their hair in frustration. Her prose is stylistically dull and unnecessarily labyrinthine. She exhibits no joy in the art of poetry only the smug eye of the critic. The book is also badly designed in that she discusses poems in various segments of the book that the reader keeps having to refer to in her Poetic Sampler. Once bright note, a wonderful poem by Elinor Wilner from Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm. I guess that was worth the price of admission but buy the Wilner book instead.
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  • Michael R. Stolze
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 25 January 2015
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    Great Book !
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