Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing PoetryAtria Books, 1999 M04 8 - 320 páginas From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder. Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry for those who read it and for those who write it—as well as for those who would like to read and write it better. By treating poetry not as a special use of language but as a distinct language—unlike the one used in prose and conversation—Koch clarifies the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens to the heart and mind while reading a poem. Koch also provides a rich anthology of more than ninety works from poets past and present. Lyric poems, excerpts from long poems and poetic plays, poems in English, and poems in translation from Homer and Sappho to Lorca, Snyder, and Ashbery; each selection is accompanied by an explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text and to put pleasure back into the experience of poetry. |
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... able to taunt it . Giving advice doesn't necessarily include lying , but does sometimes seem based on a kind of omniscience that the giver of it may not actually have : Man , being reasonable , must get drunk ; The best of life is but ...
... able to taunt it . Giving advice doesn't necessarily include lying , but does sometimes seem based on a kind of omniscience that the giver of it may not actually have : Man , being reasonable , must get drunk ; The best of life is but ...
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... able to write it ? Why are only some people able to write it ? Why can even these write only at certain times ? How can it be that these people who write it aren't extraordinary in other ways if they can write extraordinary poems ? How ...
... able to write it ? Why are only some people able to write it ? Why can even these write only at certain times ? How can it be that these people who write it aren't extraordinary in other ways if they can write extraordinary poems ? How ...
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... able to be many characters and to be in many places , to transcend the personal and find the excitement of the personal in what before was impersonal and dis- tant . It's a pleasure to write a lyric poem as oneself — but what a pleasure ...
... able to be many characters and to be in many places , to transcend the personal and find the excitement of the personal in what before was impersonal and dis- tant . It's a pleasure to write a lyric poem as oneself — but what a pleasure ...
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The Two Languages | 19 |
Music | 27 |
Repetition and Rhythm | 28 |
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