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