Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

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Simon and Schuster, 1999 M04 8 - 320 páginas
From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.

Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry for those who read it and for those who write it—as well as for those who would like to read and write it better. By treating poetry not as a special use of language but as a distinct language—unlike the one used in prose and conversation—Koch clarifies the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens to the heart and mind while reading a poem.

Koch also provides a rich anthology of more than ninety works from poets past and present. Lyric poems, excerpts from long poems and poetic plays, poems in English, and poems in translation from Homer and Sappho to Lorca, Snyder, and Ashbery; each selection is accompanied by an explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text and to put pleasure back into the experience of poetry.

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The Language of Poetry
17
The Two Languages
19
Music
20
Repetition and Rhythm
28
Line Division
29
Meter
30
NonMetrical Poetry Rhyme
36
NonRhyming and Irregularly Rhyming Poetry
44
A Few Other Inclinations
67
The Poetry Base
71
Writing and Reading Poetry
79
Inspiration 2 Writing
81
Reading
109
13
248
Index
307
29
308

Stanzas and Poetic Forms
47
The Inclinations of the Poetry Language Comparisons
51
Personification and Apostrophe
57
Lies
62
19
309
6 2 79 81
310
Permissions
313
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Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Koch has been a faculty member at Columbia since 1959 and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Koch has written works of fiction, poetry, essays and plays as well as Wishes, Lies and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red, which are books on teaching poetry.

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