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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods

Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods

Rogoff, Jay

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysWriting InstructionPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0807180114
ISBN13: 9780807180112
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 15 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award

In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry achieves its impact upon readers. His essays, drawn from more than twenty years of literary criticism, explore how the staying power of a poet's work and the likelihood of its enjoying a lasting identification with its creator depend on the skilled manipulation of poetic technique. Considering how poetry can manifest a vividly conceived world of feeling and sensation, Rogoff maintains that we understand and evaluate poets by the sum of their most persuasive inventive strategies, including their attention to form. The poet, finally, constructs a uniquely imagined universe and thus, in the minds of readers, becomes the poetry.

A model of practical criticism, intended for enthusiasts at all levels, Becoming Poetry demystifies how poetry operates on its audience to create a virtual, affective experience of lasting power and value.

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