02703cam a2200445 i 4500 20556319 BJBSDDR 20240717154114.0 ta 180527s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng c 2017052637 9780393253924 (paperback) 0393253929 (paperback) LBSOR/DLC eng LBSOR rda DLC eng pcc PN 1059 O75p 2018 808.1 Orr, Gregory, 1947- 37044 A primer for poets & readers of poetry / Gregory Orr. A primer for poets and readers of poetry First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. 325 pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index. Poetry is both simple and complex -- Letting in the disorder -- The lyric invitation -- Imagination at the threshold -- Lyric and narrative: two fundamental ordering impulses -- Some basic issues -- Words coming alive in poems -- Naming -- Singing -- Saying -- Imagining -- Ecstasy and engagement -- A second self in a second world -- Craft and quest. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Poetry Authorship. Poesía Autoría 37323 Poetry Appreciation. Poesía Historia y crítica 14630 Apreciación literaria 23762 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK rmza 121482 121482 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2024-07-10 0 PN 1059 O75p 2018 00000181876 2024-07-10 00:00:00 1 2024-07-10 BK