Adam Sol

How a Poem Moves

A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

"How a Poem Moves is the perfect antidote to the condition commonly known as Fear of Poetry. And Adam Sol is the perfect companion on this tour of the sounds, sights, and emotional delights of poetry. As someone who's spent most of her life reading and writing poems, I'm thrilled by Sol's ability to describe what he loves in a way that teaches me to see it too." --Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars "Adam Sol approaches poetry with a unique sensitivity; one that illustrates, with exceptional clarity and insight, just how a poem moves." -- Scott Griffin, founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize "With an eye to poets of diverse backgrounds and aesthetic modes, and featuring impromptu asides on rhythm and meter, How a Poem Moves is just as at home in the university classroom as the doctor's waiting room. Sol is a thoughtful and affable guide to ignite -- or reignite -- a love of poetry." -- Cassidy McFadzean, award-winning author of Hacker Packer "There is in our wounded world a great need for the balm and challenge poetry can provide. These beautiful, rich, and often surprising meditations get the reader excited about the gift that poems contain... This is a book I will pass out like religious tracts to my friends. I am grateful for it." -- Shelagh Rogers, host and producer at The Next Chapter, CBC Radio One Developed from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Always compassionate and engaging, Sol delivers a collection of thirty-five short essays that are perfect for a quick read or grouped together as a curriculum, demonstrating poetry's range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions. This illuminating book is for readers who are afraid they "don't get" poetry but who believe that, with a welcoming guide, they might conquer their fear and cultivate an appreciation for the form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ECW Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781770414563
• ISBN-10: 1770414568
• Artikelnr.: 53920681

Autorenporträt

Adam Sol is an award-winning poet, writer, and teacher. He has published four collections of poetry, including Crowd of Sounds, which won Ontario’s Trillium Book Award. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife, Rabbi Yael Splansky, and their three sons.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
How a Poem Puts Skin on a Mystery: Philip Levine, “Making Light of It”
How a Poem Shapes Memory: Deborah Digges, “Stealing Lilacs from the
Cemetery”
How a Poem Articulates a Feeling: C.K. Williams, “Love: Beginnings”
How a Poem Crystalizes an Image: Yusef Komunyakaa, “Yellowjackets”
How a Poem Makes Meaning with Music: Elise Partridge, “Domestic Interior:
Child Watching Mother”
How a Poem Snapshots a Moment of Drama: Tiphanie Yanique, “My brother comes
to me”
How a Poem Seduces Us with Outlandishness: Diane Seuss, “Free beer”
How a Poem Cooks Up Dark Insight: Philip Metres, “Recipe from the Abbasid”
How a Poem Pushes Us Away and Beckons Us Closer: Marilyn Dumont, “How to
Make Pemmican”
How a Poem Wrestles with its Inheritance: Rahat Kurd, “Ghazal: In the
Persian”
How a Poem Lives Between Languages: Natalia Toledo, trans. Clare Sullivan,
“Flower that Drops Its Petals”
How a Poem Invites Us to Praise: Ross Gay, “Ode to Drinking Water from My
Hands”
How a Poem Answers Some Questions But Not Others: Amber McMillan, “The
Light I’ve Seen in Your Hair I Have Found in My Own Hands”
How a Poem Clarifies Its Blur: Jeff Latosik, “Aubade Photoshop”
How a Poem Changes As We Read: Ali Blythe, “Shattered”
How a Poem Will (Not) Save Us: Raoul Fernandes, “Life With Tigers”
How a Poem Loves a Misunderstanding: Richard Siken, “Dots Everywhere”
How a Poem Mistrusts Its Idols: Cassidy McFadzean, “You’ll Be the Skipper,
I’ll Be the Sea”
How a Poem Doesn’t Dish: Damian Rogers, “Ode to a Rolling Blackout”
How a Poem Impersonates a Tomato: Oliver Bendorf, “Queer Facts About
Vegetables”
How a Poem Seeks New Models: Shannon Maguire, from Myrmurs
How a Poem Makes Itself Out of Unusual Materials: Madhur Anand, “Especially
in a Time”
How a Poem Chooses the Apocalypse Behind Curtain #3: Jennifer L. Knox, “The
New Let’s Make a Deal”
How a Poem Assembles a Smashed Record for Posterity: George Murray, from
“#DaydreamBereaver”
How a Poem Tries to Connect Us, Despite the Obstacles: Donna Stonecipher,
“Model City [4]”
How a Poem Welcomes Us to the Neighborhood: Bren Simmers, “[night of
nesting dolls]”
How a Poem Evokes Wonder: Sarah Holland-Batt, “Botany”
How a Poem Reaches for Transcendence: Eric Pankey, “Ash”
How a Poem Mourns: Don Paterson, “Mercies”
How a Poem Confronts the Limitations of Our Empathy: Soraya Peerbaye,
“Trials”
How a Poem Tries to Get Into It: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, “Little Song”
How a Poem Chattily Wonders About Life’s Purpose: Ulrikka S. Gernes, “On H.
C. Andersen Boulevard During Rush Hour”
How a Poem Transforms a Stroll into a Ceremony: Joy Harjo, “Walk”
How a Poem Imperfectly Reconciles Complexity: Liz Howard, “A Wake”
How a Poem Haunts: Norman Dubie, “Lines for Little Mila”
Conclusion
Acknowledgements