Preface: The Occasions of Poetry and the Writing Moment
One Story about a Poem
Not an Occasion, but Occasions
The Occasions of Poetry, Writing Moments, and The Writing Moment
Originality and the Writing Moment: The Art in Life and the Life in Art
Acknowledgements
1. Image,
Music, and Metaphor
Introduction: Beginning at the Beginnings
Working with the Image
Composing with the Music of Language
Making Metaphors
Conclusion: Ending at the Beginnings
Recommended Resources
2. Voice and Tradition
Introduction: On Necessity and Voice
The
Musical Impulse and Metrical Verse
The Freedom Impulse and Free Verse
Voice and Perspective
Voice and Developmental Structure
Conclusion: On Multiplicity and Voice
Recommended Resources
3. Poetic Forms
Introduction: Service and the Force of Form
Metrical
Forms
Twentieth Century Forms
Mediums and a New Language
Conclusion: Inspiration and the Force of Form
Recommended Resources
4. Revising, Reworking, and Wrapping Up
Introduction: The Goldilocks Approach to Revising Poems
Getting Close with Your Tools: Perspective,
Sentences, Words, and Rhythms
Adding Lift and Drag: The Poet's Perception and the Reader's Perception
Nurturing Tensions and Turns: Juxtaposition, Reclamation, Refusal, and Irony
Conclusion: The Three Bears Approach to Revising for a Self-Revising Reader
Recommended Resources
5.
Sharing Progress and Sharing Poems
Introduction: Gaining through Losing
Sharing Process
Sharing Feedback
Sharing Poetry
Conclusion: In Praise of Losing
Recommended Resources
Conclusion: The Writing Moment Without End
Appendix: Strategies for Revision
Revising
Poems: Two Examples
Revising Process: Three Approaches
Acknowledgements
Glossary
References
Index
Companion website
- Links to recordings of live poetry readings
E-Book (ISBN 9780199002535)
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Daniel Scott Tysdal teaches creative writing and English literature at the University of Toronto Scarborough. In 2012, the UTSC student newspaper, The Underground, named him one of their four "Professors of the Year." He is the author of Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a
Potentially Dangerous Method (Coteau 2006), which received the ReLit Award for Poetry (2007), and the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award (2006). His second book of poetry, The Mourner's Book of Albums, was published with Tightrope Books in 2010. His work has received a number of accolades including
honourable mention at the 2003 National Magazine Awards, the 2010 Matrix Lit Pop Award, and a place in the 2011 edition of The Best Canadian Poetry.
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