12 techniques ยท Practice ยท Mastery
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Imagery
Seeing the abstract through the concrete
The Volta
The turn that changes everything
Compression
20 words doing the work of 200
Enjambment
Line breaks as musical breath
Anaphora
Repetition that accumulates power
Objective Correlative
The external object that holds the internal truth
Sound Architecture
The poem as music
White Space & Silence
What the poem does not say
Concrete to Abstract
The ladder from the body to the idea
Direct Address
Writing to someone specific
The List Poem
Accumulation as argument
Erasure & Found Poetry
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