Open Roads Exercises in Writing Poetry

Name: Open Roads Exercises in Writing Poetry
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ISBN: 9780321127600

ISBN-10: 0321127609

ISBN-13: 9780321127600

Edition: 2005

Authors: Diane Thiel

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InOpen Roads , a wealth of fresh and innovative writing exercises and a diverse anthology of poetic forms address specific elements of craft while sparking readers' imaginations and developing their writing skills. Clear, concise discussions of particular techniques of writing poetry are followed by practice of these individual techniques. An extensive anthology of both classic and contemporary poems features poems from Keats to Komunyakaa, and from Auden to Espaillat.

Book details

List price: $113.32
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/7/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Preface to the Instructor


Introduction



Exercises for Developing Craft and Technique


Beginning/Points of Inspiration


Keeping a Journal


Personal Stories: History as Your Own Heartbeat


Memory and Imagination


Telling Lies to Tell the Truth


Random Connections


Voice and Tone


Finding Your True Subjects


Embodying a Voice


Shifting Tone


Perspective/Point of View


Choosing Points of View


Innocent Perspective


Using Biography


Selecting Details


Detailing a poem


Place with Personality


Image and Symbol


Turning Abstractions into Images


Using all of Your Senses


Writing from Art


Making Metaphor


Symbols, not Cymbals


Figurative Language


Diction


Origins of Words


Foreign Flavor


Surrealist game


Simplify


Tell-Tale Dialect


Drawing Tension


Reversing the Action


Trading Elements


Reverberating Closure


Sound and Rhythm


Listening to Nature


Finding Your Rhythm: Poetry in Prose


Sound, Sense and Nonsense


Speaker and Dialogue


Inhabitation


Populating a Piece


Dropping from the Eaves


Conversations between texts


Making the Old Story New


Song and Story


Kubla Khan Continued


Performing the Poem: Reading, Slam, Performance


Revision


Rereading, Re-imagining, Re-shaping


Drafts and Discovery


What's in a Name: Finding a Title


Finding the Form: A Revision Narrative


Workshop: Thirteen Ways of Looking for Revision



Exercises in Form and Structure


Free Verse: Origins and Season