Detonation, Connotative Value, and Evocative Power in Poetry

Previously published in An Introductory Creative Writing Program (Academic Exchange Extra [University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO)], 2008). Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. A book for writers, especially poets: An excerpt Evocative works encourage readers to visualize real or vicarious memories or images from the past, present or future, especially given a thematic foundation. The connotations of words in a poem or fiction naturally work together to help readers visualize those memories or images. In the light of a work's theme or themes, evocative power, then, logically can stand, at least partially, as a function of connotative value in a linear or perhaps exponential relationship. In simpler language, increased connotative value pumps up evocative power. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).