Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.
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"A valuable addition to one's personal library for all writers and readers of poetry, this anthology finds its rightful position among the tradition of entertaining and enlightening books in which authors discuss poetic craft or the creative process with a cogent blend of practical wisdom and refreshing clarity." ---- Edward Byrne
"This collection is a gift to creative writing classrooms everywhere. Rather than literal explanations of the text, these are fascinating explorations of the creative process, achieving the intimacy of a live reading." ---- Faith Adiele
"This collection is a gift to creative writing classrooms everywhere. Rather than literal explanations of the text, these are fascinating explorations of the creative process, achieving the intimacy of a live reading." ---- Faith Adiele
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This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to think of the poem as having sprung spontaneously, Athena-like, from the writer's head. By exposing readers to the finished product as well as the poet's own account of the poem's creation, Making Poems offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on the poetic process that will fascinate both beginning and established writers. The book also affords poetry instructors an opportunity to demonstrate to their students the ways in which poems can originate from seemingly mundane and unlikely sources.
Poets include Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Fleda Brown, J. L. Conrad, Jim Daniels, Todd Davis, Chris Dombrowski, Dan Gerber, Jeff Gundy, Kimiko Hahn, William Heyen, H. L. Hix, John Hoppenthaler, Ann Hostetler, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, David Kirby, Gerry LaFemina, Mary Linton, Shara McCallum, Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy, Mary Rose O'Reilley, Lee Peterson, Greg Rappleye, Keith Ratzlaff, Jack Ridl, Steven Sherrill, David Shumate, Aaron Smith, Lucien Stryk, Mary Swander, Sue Ellen Thompson, Natasha Threthewey, Brian Turner, Lee Upton, G. C. Waldrep, Michael Waters, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Katharine Whitcomb, and Robert Wrigley.
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Todd Davis, winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, teaches creative writing, environmental studies, and American literature at Penn State University's Altoona College. He is the author of three books of poetry--The Least of These, Some Heaven, and Ripe--and co-editor of Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in such journals and magazines as The North American Review, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, The Gettysburg Review, West Branch, River Styx, Green Mountains Review, and Image. Davis's poetry has been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and by Ted Kooser in the syndicated newspaper column, American Life in Poetry. In addition to his creative work, Davis is author or co-editor of six scholarly books, including Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade, or How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism and Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory.
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Delightful and Instructive at once,
This review is from: Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets (Excelsior Editions) (Paperback)
The joy of discovery is guaranteed: at minimum, the reader will find at least several new poets whose work she can pursue and will read many wonderful poems. Still further, the descriptions of the creative process are almost always compelling, joining inspiration and technique. I read each poem, then read the descriptions, then reread the poems. This procedure greatly enhanced both the understanding and the pleasure.
It became clear, however, that the poems exceeded what the poets said about them: there is no "intentional fallacy." While the value of this book for creative writers is obvious, I would also recommend it heartily to Continental philosophers for whom the poetry/philosophy relation is of great interest. In fact, I would recommend it to ALL general readers. The aim of Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press seems to be to delight and instruct such general readers (such as yours truly), and it fulfills this aim admirably.
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