An Introduction to Poetry The River Sings

Breaking barriers and cultivating a lifelong love of poetry, this practical guide to reading poetry is set up to provide a background in analyzing poems, applying literary theory, forming opinions and offers approaches to discussing and writing about poetry. The volume teaches readers how a writer works so that they can feel more comfortable reading poems.The author examines survivalist poetics, how readers and writers work, literary criticism, how a poem is built; metaphor, symbol, and point of view, sound and the poem, shaping the currents of poetry, reading a poem, writers on writing, and provides poems for further reading.For those looking for an accessible introduction to poetry.

Jeff Knorr is the author of two collections of poetry, STANDING UP TO THE DAY and WESTERN REACH. He is also the co-author of MOORING AGAINST THE TIDE: WRITING POETRY AND FICTION (Prentice Hall), the co-editor of A WRITERS COUNTRY (Prentice Hall), and the author of AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY: THE RIVER SINGS (Prentice Hall). He was the founding co-editor and poetry editor of the Clackamas Review, Red Rock Review, and Oxford Magazine, as well as others. Jeff Knorr currently lives in California's central valley and teaches literature and writing at Sacramento City College.

Survivalist Poetics
Green Chile
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
How Readers Work, How Writers Work
Oranges
Cups of Jade
Axe Handles
March Walk
Literary Criticism: Critical Approaches to Meeting a Poem
Marks
What Work Is
Blink Your Eyes
Poems for the Young White Man . . .
How a Poem Is Built
Metaphor, Symbol, and Point of View
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)
A woman is not a potted plant
Traveling Through the Dark
Those Winter Sundays
Sound and the Poem: Can You Hear It?
Woodchucks
The Crabs
My Papa's Waltz
Fixed Forms: Shaping the Currents of Poetry
FromTen Sonnets
The Funeral
One Art
From Narrow Road to the Interior (two haikuMatsuo Basho
School's Ugliest Girl Dies
Reading a Poem: From Page to Mouth to Ear
Homage to My Hips
No Longer Mourn for Me
A Poem for ldquo;Magic,rdquo;
Writers on Writing: Some Thoughts about Poetry
Poems for Further Reading
Snow-Flakes
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The Pasture
Birches
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
I Think I Could Turn and Live with Animals
Man and Dog on an Early Winter Morning
Killers
A Woman
Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied
Sonnet 14If thou must love me . . .
In Which She Satisfies a Fear with the Rhetoric of Tears
Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, 1975
Daystar
Crossing the Water
The Colonel
The Movies
Vandal's Moon
Remember
Uncertain Admission
Spring and All
A Blessing
Song
The Dreaming Child
To the Nightingale
To Tranquility
Evening
Verses Written in a Garden
Annabel Lee
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Sonnet 29
When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
On Being Brought From Africa to America
Sonnets from the Portuguese: Number 43
She's Free
The Poplar Field
Dover Beach
A Psalm of Life
Ozymandias
Mide Songs
My Love Has Departed, Love Song, Song on Applying War Paint, Song After Battle
Yuman and Yaqui Songs
The City Dead House
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An Introduction to Poetry The River Sings

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