Cover image for A poetry handbook / Mary Oliver.
Title:
A poetry handbook / Mary Oliver.
Author:
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019.
ISBN:
9780156724005
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., ©1994.
Physical Description:
viii, 130 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"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:
Offers advice on reading and writing poetry, and discusses imitation, sound, the line, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, and workshops.