Book
A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry / Robert Hass.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062332424
- ISBN: 0062332422
- Physical Description: x, 446 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Poetry > Authorship Creative writing Poetry > History and criticism Literary form Creative ability |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker County Library | 809.1 .H353l 2017 (Text) | 37814003088540 | NON-FICTION | Available | - |
