Kenneth Koch

Making Your Own Days

The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

From the winner of the Bollingen Prize in poetry and author of the classic bestseller "Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?" comes a unique, highly entertaining book for anyone who wants to be a better reader and writer of poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atria Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 142mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780684824383
• ISBN-10: 0684824388
• Artikelnr.: 22367138

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Koch is the author of many books of poetry, most recently Straits, and won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1994. He has also published fiction and plays, as well as books on the teaching of poetry: Wishes, Lies and Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody. He lives in New York City, where he is professor of English at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
A Brief Preface
Part I The Language of Poetry
1. The Two Languages
2. Music
Repetition and Rhythm
Line Division
Meter
Non-Metrical Poetry
Rhyme
Non-Rhyming and Irregularly Rhyming Poetry
Stanzas and Poetic Forms
3. The Inclinations of the Poetry Language
Comparisons
Personification and Apostrophe
Lies
A Few Other Inclinations
4. The Poetry Base
Part II Writing and Reading Poetry
1. Inspiration
2. Writing
3. Reading
Long Poems
Dramatic Poetry
Poetry in Other Languages and in Translation
Part III An Anthology of Poems
Index
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