The Poetry Gymnasium: 110 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse 2d ed.

About this book

This expanded edition adds sixteen new exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-stated learning objective historical background matter on the particular subgenre being explored and an example written by undergraduates at Western Kentucky University. The text also analyzes work by leading American poets including Billy Collins Denise Duhamel and Dean Young. The books five chapters correspond with the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention arrangement style memory and delivery.