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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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Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
2018, HarperCollins Publishers
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0062332430 9780062332431
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Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
2017, HarperCollins Publishers
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0062332449 9780062332448
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A little book on form: an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry
2017, Ecco, Ecco Press
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0062332422 9780062332424
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Introduction --
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 --
Acknowledgments --
Credits.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-446).
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