Articles related to "Poetic Narrative"

Carson McCullers poetic elucidation on the desire for and constant renewal of membership in the world through the eyes of a yearning pre-adolescent

Purists mumble “linking narratives are not novels-in-verse!!!” while cuddling their threadbare Lucile. Now, let’s take a moment to sort these concerns out.

She’s Ahsahta’s controversial editor; we often forget Janet Holmes is also a poet of remarkable talent. Her work belongs in our ongoing discussion of image and poetry.

Where is the dividing line between “cultivated narratives,” and those which simply grow up wild and organic from the lives of their creators?

Why and, more importantly, how are novels-in-verse so devastatingly effective in portraying action? Let’s look at techniques used in History: The Home Movie.

It’s an altered book based on the 19th century hit novel-in-verse Lucile. It’s fiction. It’s Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason.

In her novel-in-verse, Autobiography of Red, why has Anne Carson harnessed creatures from Ancient Greece to tell a story of adolescent love in modern Canada?

What if poetry books were illustrated in the same way as altered books? Would we read differently? Are words strengthened or weakened by the introduction of image?

The entry piece to a book-length narrative poem holds even more importance than it would in a general collection. Mary Jo Bang and Ruth Whitman share a technique.

How do poets subtly introduce background information to a narrative while maintaining poetic integrity? In Les Murray’s gritty drama, Fredy Neptune, photos help.

In Ultima Thule, poet Davis McCombs creates a delicate and sophisticated novel-in-verse by breaking the rule that says poems should be unnoted and self-contained.

Alice Notley and Ellen Bryant Voigt make us live their works, but how? Let’s face it; a book length poem is daunting.

Illustrated poem, novel-in-verse, Sam Savage has written a children’s book for adults. With simple, deft verse he sketched out characters readers can really care about.

Only the truly great get Pulitzers by writing about cubicles, backyards and coffeepots. If "write what you know" still applies, how can the rest of us jazz it up?

The speaker in "Lucinda Matlock" is patterned after the paternal grandmother of the poet. This poem dramatizes the life of a simple, yet accomplished and wise woman.

In the past 50 years, poetry has broken away from its traditional relationship with music, and formed an attachment to painting. Craig Raine's work, however, has both.

Historians frequently rely on secondary sources written by other scholars. In this article, we explore two such sources and their implications.

"Richard Cory" seduces the reader with its perfectly rhymed verses but ultimately shocks with its pointed concluding lesson.