This accessible writer’s guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty
of poetry, Best Words, Best Order moves into new terrain in this remarkable book. Bringing years of experience to bear on issues such as subject matter, the mechanics of poetry, and
the revision process, Dobyns explores the complex relationship between writers and their work. From Philip Larkin to Pablo Neruda to William Butler Yeats, every chapter reveals useful
lessons in these renowned poets’ work. Both enlightening and encouraging, Next Word, Better Word demystifies a subtle art form and shows writers how to overcome obstacles in the
creative process.
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Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry
$2,025 -
Persian Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: A History of Persian Literature
$4,455 -
The Weight of the Weather: Regarding the Poetry of Ted Kooser
$840 -
Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy
$4,050 -
The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
$1,800 -
Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics
$8,775 -
Voice and Versification in Translating Poems
$1,223 -
The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality
$2,203 -
Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry
$7,155 -
Poetry Criticism: Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature
$13,365 -
Pn Review
$350 -
A Million MFAs Are Not Enough
$663 -
The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing As Presence
$1,483 -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
$630 -
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
$978 -
Indian Poetics (Kavya Sastra) and Narratology Towards the Appreciation of Biblical Narrative
$4,498 -
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
$1,050 -
The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
$1,575 -
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability
$4,050 -
Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew
$875