Advanced Poetry
A Writer's Guide and Anthology
Published on 25. January 2024
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-350-22457-5 (ISBN)
Description
A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on innovation and breaking established boundaries, Advanced Poetry introduces you to the poetics shaping the contemporary literary moment, first guiding you through the contexts and principles of these forms using a range of practical examples, before prompting you to pick up the pen yourself.
Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, explicate, and write poetry and includes discussion of:
- received traditions and innovative forms
- confessional and epistolary poetry
- aesthetic experimentation with voice
- methods and theories developed by early Surrealists
-deep image and the poetics of spells
- ecopoetics & poetry of place
- writing the body based on queer theory and disability studies
- docupoetics and lyric research
- racial imaginaries and poetics of liberation
- digital poetics
- writing in community with other poets and collaborative, interdisciplinary projects
- revision processes and putting together a collection or chapbook
-advice on writing artist statements and other professional materials
Bringing together a comprehensive craft guide with a carefully collated anthology showcasing the (existing) limits of what is possible in poetry, this text explores how poetry since the 20th century has embraced traditional structures, borrowed from other disciplines, and invented wildly new forms. With close readings, writing prompts, excerpts of interviews from key figures in the field and a supplementary companion website, this is the definitive text for any poet looking to continue their poetic journey.
Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, explicate, and write poetry and includes discussion of:
- received traditions and innovative forms
- confessional and epistolary poetry
- aesthetic experimentation with voice
- methods and theories developed by early Surrealists
-deep image and the poetics of spells
- ecopoetics & poetry of place
- writing the body based on queer theory and disability studies
- docupoetics and lyric research
- racial imaginaries and poetics of liberation
- digital poetics
- writing in community with other poets and collaborative, interdisciplinary projects
- revision processes and putting together a collection or chapbook
-advice on writing artist statements and other professional materials
Bringing together a comprehensive craft guide with a carefully collated anthology showcasing the (existing) limits of what is possible in poetry, this text explores how poetry since the 20th century has embraced traditional structures, borrowed from other disciplines, and invented wildly new forms. With close readings, writing prompts, excerpts of interviews from key figures in the field and a supplementary companion website, this is the definitive text for any poet looking to continue their poetic journey.
Reviews / Votes
In the charged intimacy of whispered dish or conspiracy, Nuernberger and Zeller geek with robust gusto and gleeful rigor over poetry: its making and what it makes of us. Here's a fleet textbook that inspires possibility, offers generous guidance with a light-touch, and in the process, sneaks in a sly, keen, and often subversive anthology of poems gathered from a wide view of time and place. This is more than a textbook; it's a compelling invitation. * Douglas Kearney * Advanced Poetry "offers readers a radical methodology to studying poetics, one that simultaneously breaks boundaries for what textbooks might achieve (similar, perhaps, to Mary Ruefle's Madness, Rack, and Honey), while also harkening back to formal and historical poetics." It is "conversational, and it somehow simultaneously introduces you to new poets and traditions without ever making you feel inadequate for not knowing something." I "love that it starts each chapter with poems" and that these poems are "diverse and contemporary." And "while some craft books feel technical and dry, this one never loses its focus on poetry's magic." * From Laura Read's M.F.A. Poetry Workshop students (Laura Read, Professor of Poetry, MFA program at Eastern Washington University, USA) * Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology authored by Kathryn Nuernberger and Maya Jewell Zeller offers readers a way to think about our own work in the context of our collective lineage as poets. I love the way each chapter opens with a diverse selection of poems, which allows the reader the chance to experience the poems before reading the editors' discussion of them. And I also loved the writing in this book: it is both scholarly and accessible, poetic and sometimes personal. I will read and teach this book for the rest of my career. * Laura Read, Professor of Poetry, MFA program at Eastern Washington University, USA *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-22457-5 (9781350224575)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Kathryn Nuernberger is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at University of Minnesota, USA. She is the author of three poetry collections, RUE (2020), The End of Pink (2016), and Rag & Bone (2011), as well as two essay collections.
Maya Jewell Zeller serves as Associate Professor for Central Washington University, USA, and Affiliate Faculty in the low-residency MFA for Western Colorado University, USA. She is the author of out takes/ glove box (2023), the interdisciplinary collaboration Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (2017), Rust Fish (2011), and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (2015).
Maya Jewell Zeller serves as Associate Professor for Central Washington University, USA, and Affiliate Faculty in the low-residency MFA for Western Colorado University, USA. She is the author of out takes/ glove box (2023), the interdisciplinary collaboration Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (2017), Rust Fish (2011), and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (2015).
Content
CONTENTS
PATHWAYS INTO POETIC LINEAGES
Foreword: The End and the Beginning
An Invitation to Compose an Ars Poetica Before Reading
Introduction and Notes to Readers, Writers, and Teachers
Who is this book for?
How is this book organized?
Why begin each chapter with poems . . . ?
Do I need to read the book in order?
What pedagogical principles guide this textbook?
Some Notes on Teaching This Book
Chapter 1: Sound, Shape, & Space: Received and Invented Forms
Chapter 2: Telling Secrets: Confessions, Epistolaries, & the Lyric I
Chapter 3: The Poem in Telephone Lines & Other Thoughts on Tone, Talk, and Voice in Poetry
Chapter 4: Writing Out of Surrealism
Chapter 5: Duende, Deep Image, & The Poetics of Spells
Chapter 6: The Poetics of Liberation
Chapter 7: Writing the Body
Chapter 8: The Racial Imaginary
Chapter 9: Writing in the Field
Chapter 10: Docupoetics & Other Forms of Lyric Research
APPENDICES: MAPPING YOUR WRITING LIFE
Practical Matters
Creating an Inspiring and Supportive Workshop Community
Strategies for Revision
Some Notes on Assembling a Collection
Potential Assignments & Professional Materials
Submitting Poems for Publication
Writing an Artist Statement
Acknowledgements
Index
PATHWAYS INTO POETIC LINEAGES
Foreword: The End and the Beginning
An Invitation to Compose an Ars Poetica Before Reading
Introduction and Notes to Readers, Writers, and Teachers
Who is this book for?
How is this book organized?
Why begin each chapter with poems . . . ?
Do I need to read the book in order?
What pedagogical principles guide this textbook?
Some Notes on Teaching This Book
Chapter 1: Sound, Shape, & Space: Received and Invented Forms
Chapter 2: Telling Secrets: Confessions, Epistolaries, & the Lyric I
Chapter 3: The Poem in Telephone Lines & Other Thoughts on Tone, Talk, and Voice in Poetry
Chapter 4: Writing Out of Surrealism
Chapter 5: Duende, Deep Image, & The Poetics of Spells
Chapter 6: The Poetics of Liberation
Chapter 7: Writing the Body
Chapter 8: The Racial Imaginary
Chapter 9: Writing in the Field
Chapter 10: Docupoetics & Other Forms of Lyric Research
APPENDICES: MAPPING YOUR WRITING LIFE
Practical Matters
Creating an Inspiring and Supportive Workshop Community
Strategies for Revision
Some Notes on Assembling a Collection
Potential Assignments & Professional Materials
Submitting Poems for Publication
Writing an Artist Statement
Acknowledgements
Index