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Book

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

Call Number

  • 808.1 H353 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Ecco, [2017]

Physical Description

x, 446 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

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
  • Reafing 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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