Title:
A poetry handbook
Personal Author:
Publication Date as Range:
1994
ISBN:
9780156724005
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
viii, 130 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
"A prose guide to understanding and writing poetry"--Cover.
Contents:
Getting ready -- Reading poems -- Imitation -- Sound -- More devices of sound -- The line -- Some given forms -- Verse that is free -- Diction, tone, voice -- Imagery -- Revision -- Workshops and solitude.
Abstract:
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built -- meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. She talks of iambs and trochees, couplets and sonnets, and how AND WHY this should matter to anyone writing or reading poetry. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space.
Reading Level:
1130 L Lexile
Subject Term:
Genre:
Lexile Measure:
1130 L