Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry (Philippine Writers Series)

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Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry (Philippine Writers Series)

Written by Gémino H. Abad
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This book is intended as an introduction at the collegiate level to the writing of poetry. While it draws form various sources, its most significant feature is the use of Filipino poems in English as examples for various poetic conventions, forms, and techniques. It consists of four parts. The first part deals with the origin and history of lyrical poetry, and includes a short anthology of ancient world poetry. The second part consists of four essays on how to read a poem from a standpoint that regards the poem as "the shaping in language of a human experience"; it includes an anthology of early Filipino poems in English. The third part is focused on writing the poem, and consists of ten essays on meter, traditional lyric forms, free verse, imagery, metaphor, and the labor of revision; it includes poetic exercises and two anthologies: one of short poems in English by Filipino poets, and another of contemporary Filipino poetry in English. The fourth part, consisting of two essays and "36 Questions About Poetry", looks toward "a poetics of writing the lyric poem". This handbook ends with a reading list intended to encourage the student to make up his own.

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Pages 318
Language Eng
Publisher University of the Philippines Press
Published 2004
ISBN 7859196
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Gémino H. Abad

After spending years working in the corporate world, Gémino H. Abad finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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