Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

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A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on innovation and breaking established boundaries, Advanced Poetry introduces you to the poetics shaping the contemporary literary moment, first guiding you through the contexts and principles of these forms using a range of practical examples, before prompting you to pick up the pen yourself. Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, edit and write poetry and includes discussion of: - confessional and epistolary poetry - aesthetic experimentation with voice - methods and theories developed by early Surrealists - ecopoetics & ethnopoetics - Writing the body based on queer theory and disability studies - docupoetics and lyric research - racial imaginaries - digital poetics - Writing in the community and collaborative projects - the revision process and putting together a collection or chapbook Bringing together a comprehensive craft guide with a carefully collated anthology showcasing the (existing) limits of what is possible in poetry, this text explores how poetry since the 20th-century has embraced traditional structures, borrowed from other disciplines, and invented wildly new forms. With close readings, writing prompts, excerpts of interviews from key figures in the field and a supplementary companion website, this is the definitive text for any poet looking to continue their poetic journey.

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Kathryn Nuernberger is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of Minnesota, USA. She is the author of three poetry collections, RUE (2020) The End of Pink (2016) and Rag & Bone (2011), as well as two essay collections and was the long-time director of Pleiades Press. Maya Jewell Zeller serves as Associate Professor for Central Washington University, USA and Poetry Editor for Scablands Books. She is the author of Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (2017), Rust Fish (2011), and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (2015).