A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry

Hass, Robert, author.

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"Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop,"--NoveList.

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ISBN:

9780062332424

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 446 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

One
Two
Three
Four
A note on numbers
Blank verse
Sonnet
Reading the sonnet
Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle
A note on genre
Ode
Reading the ode
Elegy
Reading the elegy
Satire
Georgic
Variable stanzas and organic form
Difficult forms
Collage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics
Mixed forms
Prose poem
A note on stress
How to scan a poem
How free verse works

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2132263

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