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Mind's Eye, The Kevin Clark

Mind's Eye, The By Kevin Clark

Mind's Eye, The by Kevin Clark

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Mind's Eye, The: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Kevin Clark

The Mind's Eye, written by a published poet, focuses on imagery and sound and has the added benefit of being concise, inexpensive, and handy. Contemporary poetry as well as traditional form is discussed, with an emphasis on contemporary poets - more than ninety of them - and three student poets. Chapters deal with difficult topics such as racism, war, mortality, gender, and more.

About Kevin Clark

An award-winning poet, Kevin Clark is the author of the collection In the Evening of No Warning. His poems and essays have appeared widely in places such as The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Southern Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award, he teaches at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. He lives with his wife and children on California's central coast, where he continues to play upper division softball despite legs like ancient concrete and more injuries than Evel Knievel.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Mind's Eye Imagery Sound and Idiom Imagination One Words that Paint, Images that Speak Painting Pictures with Words The Power of a Single Image Rendering Human Drama The Verb as Catalyst Exploring with Images The Quicksand of Abstraction A Note on Revision Getting Started The Poet's Note Card Two The Lively Image vs. The Deadly Cliche Observations that Surprise Metaphors and Similes Listing The Interior World The Other Senses Dramatizing Everyday Subjects The Poet's Note Card Three The Sound of Contemporary Poetry Why Poems Don't Sing Like Songs Conversational Poetry Musical Poetry How We Talk Back Home Poems That Go Fast Revising for Sound The Poet's Note Card Four Conflict and Transformation The Problem of the Human Heart Tension and Conflict The Transformative Moment Portraying Stasis Sentiment vs. Sentimentality Revising for Clarity The Poet's Note Card Five Do Poems Have Plot? Keeping Your Reader on Edge Lyric Interludes Narrative and the Transformative Moment Braiding Heightening the Drama Stories of Childhood Closure The Poet's Note Card Six Empathy and Creativity Becoming the Other The Historical Persona Dramatizing Current Events Myth The Psyche Under Pressure The Poet's Note Card Seven Leaping through Time and Space The Poetic Sequence Multiple Pictures Multiple Narratives Non-Numerical Sequences Revising toward the Sequence The Poet's Note Card Eight Frames and Forms Free Verse and the Question of Form Syllabics, Metrics and Blank Verse Rhyming The Sonnet The Villanelle The Sestina The Poet's Note Card Nine Stanzas, Prose, and the Field of the Page Organizing Words on the Page The Prose Poem Aeration Visual Caesurae The Poet's Note Card Ten Surrealism The Logic of Alogical Images Nonsense vs. Instinct Dream Poems Dreamtime and Magical Realism The Poet's Note Card Eleven Writing about Sadness The Elegy Imagery and Restraint Threnody Expectation and Surprise The Poet's Note Card Twelve Poetry and Eros The Predicament of the Love Poem Conflict and Tone The Language of Desire Erotic Poetry The Poet's Note Card Thirteen The Poetry of Witness Restraint War and Witness Writing about Racism Poems about Gender The Question of Culpability The Poet's Note Card Fourteen Stretching the Imagination The Next Challenge Eckphrasis The Drama of Sport The Serious Business of the Funny Poem Divinity and Uncertainty Philosophical Imagery The Poet's Note Card Fifteen Breaking the Rules, Nurturing the Weird Eccentricity and Voice Being Different Associative Journeys Undermining the Rules of Grammar Enigma Poems The Poet's Note Card Appendix The Culture of Poetry Writing Groups Public Readings How to Get Published * Choosing Journals * Submitting Poems by Mail * Submitting Poems by Email * Keeping a Submissions Log * On Simultaneous Submissions * Rejection and Acceptance The Poet's Note Card

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CIN020549823XG
9780205498239
020549823X
Mind's Eye, The: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Kevin Clark
Kevin Clark
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
2007-10-25
272
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