Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the WorldGregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers has emerged as one of the most well-respected writing programs in the country, producing a generation of first-rate poets who are also deeply dedicated teachers of their art. Poets Teaching Poets collects essays by current and former lecturers at Warren Wilson, including acclaimed poets Joan Aleshire, Marianne Boruch, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Reginald Gibbons, Louise Glück, Allen Grossman, Robert Haas, Tony Hoagland, Heather McHugh, Gregory Orr, Michael Ryan, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Alan Williamson, Eleanor Wilner, and Renate Wood. This passionate and provocative anthology presents an extended, insightful dialogue on an astonishing range of topics: writers from Homer, Dickinson, and Akhmatova to Bishop, O'Hara, Milosz, and Plath; meditations on the nature of the image and the discovery of the self in Greek verse; a passionate defense of lyric poetry; and other engaging themes. Whatever their subject, these essays are, at the core, passionate and thoughtful meditations on the place of poetry in contemporary culture. Poets Teaching Poets will be an invaluable tool for teachers and students of poetry and poetics at every level. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between craft and the larger issues of art, and in the continuing and exciting relevance of poetry today. Gregory Orr is author of six books of poetry, most recently City of Salt, and of two books of criticism, Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems and Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to the Poetry. He is Professor of English, University of Virginia. Ellen Bryant Voigt is founder and former director of the low-residency MFA Writing Program at Goddard College and teaches in its relocated incarnation at Warren Wilson College. She has published four volumes of poetry and has received numerous awards, including two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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... importance of what the poem claims to be important . Their flaw may be called the flaw of bathos or unintended deflation , in contrast to the opposite flaw of overwriting or inflation , in which the rhythms of a poem are more charged ...
... importance of what the poem claims to be important . Their flaw may be called the flaw of bathos or unintended deflation , in contrast to the opposite flaw of overwriting or inflation , in which the rhythms of a poem are more charged ...
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... important to our excitement as readers , to create his or her identity out of that understanding . ( Perhaps in lesser poems all this is missing because nothing of sufficient importance is informing that artistic illu- sion of the ...
... important to our excitement as readers , to create his or her identity out of that understanding . ( Perhaps in lesser poems all this is missing because nothing of sufficient importance is informing that artistic illu- sion of the ...
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... importance / of this nameless spectacle " ) , it would seem to be sarcastic , were it not for the modesty of its own self - rebuke ( “ without a word " ) . It's not with- out portent , the irony of this turn . ( There are three great ...
... importance / of this nameless spectacle " ) , it would seem to be sarcastic , were it not for the modesty of its own self - rebuke ( “ without a word " ) . It's not with- out portent , the irony of this turn . ( There are three great ...
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