Advanced Poetry

Kathryn Nuernberger is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at University of Minnesota, USA. She is the author of three poetry collections, RUE (2020), The End of Pink (2016), and Rag & Bone (2011), as well as two essay collections.Maya Jewell Zeller serves as Associate Professor for Central Washington University, USA, and Affiliate Faculty in the low-residency MFA for Western Colorado University, USA. She is the author of out takes/ glove box (2023), the interdisciplinary collaboration Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (2017), Rust Fish (2011), and the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (2015).

• CONTENTSPATHWAYS INTO POETIC LINEAGESForeword: The End and the BeginningAn Invitation to Compose an Ars Poetica Before ReadingIntroduction and Notes to Readers, Writers, and TeachersWho is this book for? How is this book organized?Why begin each chapter with poems . . . ? Do I need to read the book in order?What pedagogical principles guide this textbook?Some Notes on Teaching This BookChapter 1: Sound, Shape, & Space: Received and Invented FormsChapter 2: Telling Secrets: Confessions, Epistolaries, & the Lyric IChapter 3: The Poem in Telephone Lines & Other Thoughts on Tone, Talk, and Voice in PoetryChapter 4: Writing Out of SurrealismChapter 5: Duende, Deep Image, & The Poetics of SpellsChapter 6: The Poetics of LiberationChapter 7: Writing the BodyChapter 8: The Racial ImaginaryChapter 9: Writing in the FieldChapter 10: Docupoetics & Other Forms of Lyric ResearchAPPENDICES: MAPPING YOUR WRITING LIFEPractical MattersCreating an Inspiring and Supportive Workshop CommunityStrategies for RevisionSome Notes on Assembling a CollectionPotential Assignments & Professional MaterialsSubmitting Poems for PublicationWriting an Artist StatementAcknowledgementsIndex

In the charged intimacy of whispered dish or conspiracy, Nuernberger and Zeller geek with robust gusto and gleeful rigor over poetry: its making and what it makes of us. Here’s a fleet textbook that inspires possibility, offers generous guidance with a light-touch, and in the process, sneaks in a sly, keen, and often subversive anthology of poems gathered from a wide view of time and place. This is more than a textbook; it’s a compelling invitation.