Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.
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Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work. --Teachers & Writers
Michael Theune has come up with an ingenious way of thinking about poetry. --Ed Hirsch
A smart collection of takes on poetry's most essential maneuvers. --Billy Collins
Michael Theune has come up with an ingenious way of thinking about poetry. --Ed Hirsch
A smart collection of takes on poetry's most essential maneuvers. --Billy Collins
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MICHAEL THEUNE studied creative writing at the University of Iowa and the University of Houston. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in various journals, including the Iowa Review, the New Republic, Pleiades, and Verse. He teaches English at Illinois Wesleyan University.
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By C. Lancaster
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It's my last semester of college, and this book has finally convinced me that poetry is worthwhile. I have hated poetry throughout my entire experience as an English major, preferring instead to read novels. I always thought poetry was too much work; in most of my classes, I had to dissect poetry according to meter and rhythm and other meaningless attributes. Structure and Surprise is the textbook I'm reading for an Intro to Creative Writing class, and its perspective has given me an entirely different way of understanding poetry. The essays arrange poems not by era or rhyme patterns, but by the methods of creating meaning employed by the poets.
I definitely will keep this book and carry it with me to grad school.
I definitely will keep this book and carry it with me to grad school.
By Travis
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I ordered the book Structure and Surprise because I am taking a workshop next month on structuring poetry. This book has all the info I need to study ahead of time and be prepared. It was shipped to me in a very timely manner, meeting all my expectations and needs. I am quite pleased with it.
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