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Poetry as Persuasion (Paperback)
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Poetry as Persuasion (Paperback)
Series: Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art & Craft
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With the careful consideration and insight of a master in his
calling, Carl Dennis proposes that poems are acts of persuasion and
that the strength of a poem's speaker is the key to engaging the
reader. In Poetry as Persuasion, Dennis identifies the qualities of
passion, discrimination, and inclusiveness that are essential in
creating a compelling, successful speaker. Calling on such masters
of the craft as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, among others,
Dennis uses a variety of poetic examples to show how to engage a
reader. He demonstrates how a successful poem involves a
relationship between the text and the reader's imagination: it
convinces the reader that someone is standing behind the lines
whose company is worth keeping, and whose experience evokes a
universally enthralling response. The book offers detailed studies
of point of view, irony, myth, genre - including a discussion on
writing political poetry - and uses practical examples to
demonstrate the art and rewards of revision. Lucidly written,
Poetry as Persuasion offers both inspiration and indispensable
advice for practicing poets and offers anyone with an interest in
poetry a more thorough understanding and experience of its
universal appeal. Carl Dennis is the author of seven books of
poetry, including, most recently, Meetings with Time. A recipient
of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts, in 2000 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize
from Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Association for his
contribution to American poetry. He is a professor of English at
the State University of New York at Buffalo and a sometime member
of the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at Warren
Wilson College.
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