Hunting the Snark
ISBN 1-55778-052-8 | |
Hunting the Snark is a compendium of poetic terminology that mirrored American contemporary poetry of nineteen seventies and eighties written by
Classifications and terminology
His classifications are concepts like: "Sylvia Plath Poems", "Wise Child poems", "Snapshot Poems", "Academic Sleaze", "Fruits-and-Flower-Poems", "Ezra Pound poems", "Jazz Poems", "Self-Pity Poems", "West Coast Poems".
Title
The title is a reference to Lewis Carroll’s poem "The Hunting of the Snark".
Passel of Poets
Peters anthologizes in Hunting the Snark a comprehensive amount of poets and their poems including widely noted poets such as
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On the Trico libraries news and notes web,[2] library associate Evelyn Khoo chose the Hunting of the Snark as “Curious, Useful, Edifying, Inspiring: The Reference Books of McCabe Library". Khoo assesses the book as a book that replaces the standard poetry anthologies with the usual geographic or chronological format for most reference works, with classifications like "academic sleaze", "poultry poems", "bent genes poems", and "Disney poems".
Each category has a selection of classic and contemporary poets, which embody the spirit of each genre, tied together with Peters' critical analysis.
Poet and noted biographer of Sylvia Plath Edward Butcher wrote an essay on Peters, stating that he "fairly categorized terminologically American poems and poets with his original poetic terminology".[3]
References
- ^ "Review". Powell's Books. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
- ^ Reference Books of McCabe Library[permanent dead link]
- ^ Great American Poetry Bake-Off-4th series