The Encounter: A Handbook of Poetic Practice

Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-64317-298-9 (paperback; $29.99); 978-1-64317-299-6 (PDF, $19.99) 978-1-64317-300-9 (EPUB, $19.99) © 2022 by Parlor Press. 250 pages with notes and illustrations. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying Review by Michael Theune, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 2022, DOI:10.1080/14790726.2022.2149813.  About This Book Where does poetry come from? The Encounter: A Handbook of Poetic Practice addresses this question by offering personal essays by thirty different contemporary poets who reflect upon an encounter that has been formative in their own life. In evaluating their own experience, the poets in this collection cast light upon their own poetic process and their own coming to form. Whether by considering encounters with richly-individualized people, paintings, poems, poetic forms, or places, the aston