Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns

by Michael Theune

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780915924271
Publisher:	Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	889,013
Product dimensions:	6.01(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     V
Introduction   Michael Theune     1
The Poetic Turns
The Ironic Structure   Christopher Bakken     9
The Emblem Structure   Michael Theune     27
The Concessional Structure   Mary Szybist     41
The Retrospective-Prospective Structure   Mark Yakich     61
The Elegy's Structures   D.A. Powell     83
The Dialectical Argument Structure   John Beer     99
The Descriptive-Meditative Structure   Corey Marks     123
The Mid-course Turn   Jerry Harp     147
Substructure   Prageeta Sharma   Michael Theune     167
Endless Structures     185
Inspiration, Guides, Exercises     225
Further Reading     235
Works Cited     237
Notes on Contributors     241