An Introduction to Poetry

Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 13th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry.  The authors of this bestselling book are the recipients of many prestigious poetry awards.  Features new to this edition include:

 

Exclusive conversation between Dana Gioia and U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, offer students an insiders look into the importance of literature and reading in the life of this poet.

More than 50 new selectionsfrom a wonderful range of poets including Kevin Young, Bettie Sellers, Mary Oliver, David Lehman, Constantine Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anne Stevenson, James Weldon Johnson, Alice Fulton, Jimmy Baca, Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorine Niedecker, among others.

New 2009 MLA guidelinesprovides students the updated source citation guidelines from the new 7th edition of the MLA Handbook and incorporates these in all sample student papers.

                                      

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X. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy ("Actually, I was pretty eighth class"). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children. Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. ("Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!") After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2001); and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry's place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. From 2003-2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active and engaged literary reading by creating The Big Read, which has helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He currently divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Santa Rosa, California, living with his wife Mary, their two sons, and two uncontrollable cats.

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Poetry

 

Interview with Kay Ryan

 

1. Reading a Poem  

Poetry or Verse

Reading a Poem

Paraphrase

 William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree  

Lyric Poetry  

  Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays  

Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifers Tigers  

Narrative Poetry  

 Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence  

 Robert Frost, Out, Out  

 Dramatic Poetry  

 Robert Browning, My Last Duchess  

Didactic Poetry

 Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing  

 Adrienne Rich, Recalling Aunt Jennifers Tigers  

Thinking About Paraphrase  

 William Stafford, Ask Me  

 William Stafford, A Paraphrase of Ask Me  

Checklist: Writing a Paraphrase

Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing  

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

 

2. Listening to a Voice

 Tone  

 Theodore Roethke, My Papas Waltz  

 Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know  

 Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book  

 Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter  

 Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles  

 ** Kevin Young, Doo Wop

 Weldon Kees, For My Daughter  

The Person in the Poem  

 Natasha Trethewey, White Lies  

 Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal  

 Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting  

 Suji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an Onion  

 William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud  

 Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry  

 James Stephens, A Glass of Beer  

 Anne Sexton, Her Kind  

 William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow  

Irony  

 Robert Creeley, Oh No  

 W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen  

 Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage

 ** Rod Taylor, Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa Warrior

 Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links  

 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig  

 ** Dorothy Parker, Comment

 ** Bob Hicok, Making It In Poetry

 Thomas Hardy, The Workbox  

For Review and Further Study  

 William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper  

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