Description
Book Synopsis This expanded edition adds sixteen new exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-stated learning objective, historical background matter on the particular subgenre being explored, and an example written by undergraduates at Western Kentucky University. The text also analyzes work by leading American poets including Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel and Dean Young. The book''s five chapters correspond with the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.
Trade ReviewFrom the first edition: "provides nearly one hundred practice lessons for improving all aspects of poetry and poetic prose"—
Reference & Research Book News"This is the book that should be in every workshop."—Richard Jackson, University of Tennessee–Chattanooga, author of
Resonance and
Unauthorized Autobiography"If you're a writing teacher, you'll find yourself itching to use the exercises. If you're a student reading
The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, you'll be lamenting, 'Man, why wasn't I in
that class?' Hunley makes teaching one continuous act of invention for both the student and the instructor."—Alexandria Peary, Salem State University
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The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse is the complete workout! While it can help poets create new work in a variety of aesthetics and modes—New Formalism and Language poetry, Imagism and Ultra-Talk—anyone who trains with the
The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse certainly will make poems that are beautiful, powerful, and energetic."—Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University
"Finally, there's a text that merges theory and practicality and helps students build, strengthen, and tone their poetry muscles."—Emari DiGiorgio, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
