Windows and Doors

A Poet Reads Literary Theory
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-472-03599-1
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Poets on Poetry

Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé’s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology. Foundational topics - diction, syntax, rhythm, surprise, figurative language, narrative, genre, book design, and performance - are explained through the lenses of theory, history, and philosophy and illuminated through vibrant examples from the works of numerous contemporary American poets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saje, Natasha

Über Autor(innen)

Natasha Sajé is Professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, USA where she also curates the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series. She has published three books of poetry: Red Under the Skin (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994), Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004), and Vivarium (Tupelo Press, 2014). Her work has received honors including the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards from the Poetry Society of America.