Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically Adult Spanish NonFiction New Titles July 2024 from Pulitzer Prize finalist and

from Pulitzer Prize finalist and The Poet's Companion coauthor Dorianne Laux

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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically Adult Spanish NonFiction New Titles July 2024 from Pulitzer Prize finalist andWhat makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem including its diction, form, imagery, and rhythm and construct an interpretation of its meaning. Using guided close readings and nearly 40 creative and critical "experiments," this book shows how a poem takes shape through the intersection of all its lyric