Description: Poems are made of words, not ideas. Those words are rhythmic and, when chosen and composed properly, are capable of entering a reader's body and resonating. The Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory explains the historical connections between word, image, and sound to empower you to create work that is dynamic, vital, and musical.
Review Quotes:
Keith Flynn's kaleidoscope, tornado-speed tour through modern and postmodern poetics is nothing less than a portrait of the turbulent soul's history of our times. He is respectful and appreciative of traditional methods and poets, but his more ardent sympathies are with the new, the newer, the very newest. Informative--oh, yes indeed!--but The Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory is also one of the most engaging, soulful, generous, and truly exciting books I ever read. Open it and hang on to your head. --Fred Chappell
Keith Flynn writes about poetry with the same energy and passion that Jerry Lee Lewis plays piano. Yet equally impressive is Flynn's immense knowledge of both poetry and music, which makes The Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory required reading for veteran as well as novice poets. --Ron Rash