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Title: Best Words, Best Order, 2nd Edition: Essays on Poetry by Stephen Dobyns ISBN: 1-4039-6147-6 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 02 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: essential essays
Comment: These essays are amazing -- the most brilliant, thorough, painstaking essays on poetry I have ever read. Dobyns, who long ago got his MFA from Iowa University, the finest institution for graduate poetry, & now teaches in Boston, knows poetry through & through & wants his readers to as well. In this book he teaches about so many aspects of the highest poetry, how much the words have inside them, & does it in a way perfect for the reader (or for me anyway) to learn from so well. He considers poems throughout in order to illustrate concepts he's writing about, & the book closes with chapters on 3 20th century masters: Ritsos, Rilke, & Mandelstam, & the penultimate chapter about the intricate bestness of a poem of Dobyns's own. I wouldn't consider this a how-to book so much as a keep-this-in-mind-while-you-invent book. Essential essays.
Rating: 5
Summary: thoughts on poetry
Comment: This book will surely not serve to make its reader a master poet, but it is a very interesting read for anyone who cares about the high art of poetry. Anyone who's fairly new to poetry & wants to know more sbout it, about some ways to think of the words, really ought to read this book. Beyond that, it's enjoyable anyway to read someoned else's thoughts on poetry, poems, & the act of writing.
Rating: 3
Summary: The best intentions
Comment: Not sure it will make you a poet. But good intentions don't always lead to the subway. Heck, if he had read his own book, would he have written "Paradise Lost"? As Pierre Menard said (in Spanish), I am competing with Cervantes. The influence of Harold Bloom is nowhere less felt. Put your anxiety aside and spill your drink into the face of the loudmouth begging for it. Is that a prescription for poetry. Maybe not, but until a better one comes along, I'll stick with the best (thank you, Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
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Title: The Flexible Lyric (The Life of Poetry) by Ellen Bryant Voigt ISBN: 0820321311 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.31 |
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Title: Velocities: New and Selected Poems 1966-1992 by Stephen Dobyns ISBN: 0140586512 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: In the Palm of Your Hand:The Poet's Portable Workshop by Steve Kowit ISBN: 0884481492 Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Nine Gates : Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield ISBN: 0060929480 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo ISBN: 0393309339 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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