A Little Book on Form : : an Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
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Call Number: 809.1 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Hass, Robert
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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.
"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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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Ecco, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: x, 446 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062332424
0062332422
SUBJECTS
Poetry -- Authorship.
Creative writing.
Poetry -- History and criticism.
Literary form.
Creative ability.