1st Edition

Poetry as Method Reporting Research Through Verse

By Sandra L Faulkner Copyright 2009
    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to using and creating poetry for conducting and reporting social research. It includes examples of poetry, interviews of poets, and practical exercises that will enhance the discussion of poetry writing as a method. When used as a teaching guide this book will encourage students to consider the importance of form and function in poetry for qualitative methods. It also answers the question of how to teach the creation and evaluation of poetry, it combats the perception that poetry is too difficult or mysterious to use as research and that only poets should be concerned with poetic craft.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Research/Poetry; Chapter 3 Concern with Craft; Chapter 4 Research Poetry; Chapter 5; Conclusion;

    Biography

    Dr. Sandra Faulkner is an assistant professor in the Department of Interpersonal Communication at Bowling Green State University in Ohio