Poetry by Chance: An Anthology of Poems Powered by Metaphor Dice
Taylor Mali
(Editor)
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Description
Writers of all ages and levels of experience have been using Taylor Mali's Metaphor Dice for years to explore and revel in the formulaic nature of metaphors. The game gives you a collection of three different concepts or language tools that create a metaphor, and it is up to the poet to fill in the rest of the poem based on their roll. Some metaphors work and some don't. Some are immediately hilarious while others slowly reveal themselves to be astonishingly insightful. Poetry By Chance is the first collection of poems that were all prompted by different rolls of Metaphor Dice, featuring submitters from the inaugural Golden Die Contest. After reading through this collection, you can't help but see the power of metaphor in understanding the world around us. In this anthology there is no singular poetic style or voice, but rather a collection of unique voices and perspectives for each roll. With some deeply personal, and some widely universalizing, one thing is clear: these poems are the brainchild of an ingenious, yet simple, writing tool.
Product Details
Price
$25.00
$23.25
Publisher
Button Poetry
Publish Date
July 11, 2023
Pages
176
Dimensions
6.12 X 8.51 X 0.47 inches | 0.47 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781638340744
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About the Author
Taylor Mali is the author most recently of The Whetting Stone (Rattle 2017), a "life-affirmingly dark" look at the death of his first wife. He is also the author of Bouquet of Red Flags (Write Bloody Books 2014), a poetic celebration of "a marriage I did not yet realize was over," What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World (Putnam 2012) as well as two other books of poetry, The Last Time As We Are (Write Bloody Books 2009) and What Learning Leaves (Hanover 2002). He received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2001 to develop Teacher! Teacher! a one-man show about poetry, teaching, and math which won the jury prize for best solo performance at the 2001 Comedy Arts Festival.Formerly president of Poetry Slam, Inc., the non-profit organization that oversees all poetry slams in North America, Taylor Mali makes his living entirely as a spoken-word and voiceover artist these days, traveling around the country performing and teaching workshops as well as doing occasional commercial voiceover work. He has narrated several books on tape, including The Great Fire (for which he won the Golden Earphones Award for children's narration).
