The Poetry Gymnasium - 110 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, 2D Ed

This expanded edition adds sixteen new exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-stated learning objective, historical background matter on the particular subgenre being explored, and an example written by undergraduates at Western Kentucky University. The text also analyzes work by leading American poets including Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel and Dean Young. The book's five chapters correspond with the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction�BR>
I. Invention Exercises�BR>
II. Arrangement Exercises�

III. Style Exercises�7

IV. Memory Exercises�5

V. Delivery Exercises�6

Copyright Acknowledgments�7

Index�9

About the author

Tom C. Hunley is a professor in the MFA/BA creative writing programs at Western Kentucky University. His work has appeared in many literary periodicals, such as TriQuarterly, Five Points, North American Review and New York Quarterly. He is the author of several poetry collections and lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Product details

• Authors: Tom C. Hunley
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2019
• EAN: 9781476675824
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7582-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 509 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures