This accessible writer’s guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty
of poetry, Best Words, Best Order moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience to bear on issues such as subject matter, the mechanics of poetry, and
the revision process, Dobyns explores the complex relationship between writers and their work. From Philip Larkin to Pablo Neruda to William Butler Yeats, every chapter reveals useful
lessons in these renowned poets’ work. Both enlightening and encouraging, Next Word, Better Word demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the
creative process.
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The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
$1,575 -
Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry
$2,025 -
Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson
$4,725 -
Milton in the Long Restoration
$6,075 -
Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics
$8,775 -
The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
$14,400 -
Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures
$7,650 -
Pn Review
$350 -
The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens
$1,123 -
Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult
$5,400 -
Elizabeth Bishop and Translation
$3,600 -
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability
$4,050 -
In Fine Form: A Contemporary Look at Form Poetry
$1,048 -
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
$1,800 -
Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy
$4,050 -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography
$1,225 -
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
$1,050 -
Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins: Twelve Literary and Historical Essays
$3,150 -
The Sonnet
$1,123 -
The Wine Goblet of Hafez: A Comparative Study of the Influence of Hafez on the Fifteenth-Century Classical Persian Poet Jami
$4,048