THE SCIENCE FICTION POETRY HANDBOOK
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Topic: Poetry
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Content Inside: THE SCIENCE FICTION POETRY HANDBOOK THE SCIENCE FICTION POETRY HANDBOOK Suzette Haden Elgin edited by Mike Allen and Bud Webster Sam’s Dot Publishing in cooperation with the Science Fiction Poetry Association for the Science Fiction Poetry Association Published by Sam’s Dot Publishing P.O. Box 782 Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52406-0782 www.samsdotpublishing.com in cooperation with the Science Fiction Poetry Association www.sfpoetry.com Copyright © 2005 by Suzette Haden Elgin Cover art and design copyright © 2005 by Tim Mullins All rights reserved under the International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any man- ner without written permission, except brief quotes used for review pur- poses. A previous edition of this book was published in 1986 by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Revised 2004 by Suzette Haden Elgin. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE 7 CHAPTER ONE Defining the Science Fiction Poem 10 CHAPTER TWO Graphics Patterning: How the Poem Looks 15 CHAPTER THREE Phonological Patterning: How the Poem Sounds 23 CHAPTER FOUR Lexical Patterning: How Poets Choose Their Words 41 CHAPTER FIVE Syntactic/Semantic Patterning: How Poets Use Grammar Rules 51 CHAPTER SIX Through the Old Credibility Gap 64 CHAPTER SEVEN Marketing and Promoting Your Work 72 CHAPTER EIGHT Poetry Readings, Workshops, and Other Events 87 CHAPTER NINE A Brief History of the SFPA 97 REFERENCES & SUGGESTED READINGS 102 THE RHYSLING RECORD 118 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 126 -7- PREFACE Welcome to the Science Fiction Poetry Handbook. I hope you will find it both interesting and useful. All of the example poems used in this handbook were written by me, which is unusual for a book of this kind, and requires ex- planation. There were three good reasons for doing it this way. First, using only my poems makes it possible for the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) to get this handbook out with- out the usual endless hassles of writin ...
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