Structure & Surprise

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• Welcome!
• About
• S&S Supplements
  • Ironic Structure
    • From the Greek Anthology
  • Emblem Structure
  • Concessional Structure
  • Retrospective-Prospective Structure
    • Apology
  • The Elegy’s Structures
  • Dialectical Argument Structure
    • If I/Then You Dialectical Argument Poems
  • Descriptive-Meditative Structure
  • Mid-course Turns
  • Substructure
  • Epiphanic Structure
• New Structures
  • Circular Structure
  • Cliche-and-Critique Structure
    • “Ecosystems are fragile…”
  • Dejection-Elation Structure
  • Dream-to-Waking Structure
  • List-with-a-Twist Structure
    • I Could Have Loved You–Probably
  • Metaphor-to-Meaning Structure
    • Ephemeroptera
    • Violin
    • Writing a Metaphor-to-Meaning Poem
  • Question-and-Answer Structure
  • Reductio ad Absurdum
  • Story-with-a-Moral Structure
  • Turn-to-Another Structure
• Voltage!
• Theory & Criticism
  • Against “Narrative”
  • Doing the Twist
  • Fitting Surprise
    • Fitting Surprise and the Critique of Recent Poetics
  • Further Reading
  • Responding to Poetry Magazine
  • Surprise!: Comments on, Well, Surprise
  • The Non-Turning of Recent American Poetry
  • The Self-Reflexive Turn
    • Current
  • The Structure-Form Distinction
  • Turned onto Turns: Comments on Structure
• Pedagogy
  • Poetic Structures, Summarized
  • Teaching Collaborative, Dialectical Argument Poems
  • Teaching Ironic Two-Line Poems
  • The Build-and-Activate Structure
  • Trust the Turn
  • Writing Knox’s The Opposite…
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