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Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns Perfect Paperback – May 15, 2007

by Michael Theune (Editor)
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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

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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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Teachers & Writers Collaborative; First Edition (May 15, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Perfect Paperback ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0915924277
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0915924271
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.55 x 9 inches
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