Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry - Softcover

Mason, David; Nims, John Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072819596 ISBN 13: 9780072819595

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

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Book by Mason David Nims John Frederick

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Reseña del editor:

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

Biografía del autor:

David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, and received degrees from The Colorado College and the University of Rochester. He spent most of his twenties traveling and working as a manual laborer, with a brief stint working for a film company. He has taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and is now on the faculty of The Colorado College. He lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs. Masons two prize-winning books of poems are The Buried Houses (1991) and The Country I Remember (1996). With Mark Jarman he co-edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996; reprinted 1998) and with the late John Frederick Nims Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (2000). His collection of literary essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000. Mason is also a memoirist, fiction writer and frequent book reviewer.

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• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0072819596
• ISBN 13: 9780072819595
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 688