Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems\' structure, rather than their forms or genres.
In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work..
The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others.
Michael Theune\'s breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use Structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras.
Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems\' structure, rather than their forms or genres
