![]() |
|
Product Description
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. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. “Stunning” (Los Angeles Times). Index.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America)
- American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
- Making Shapely Fiction
- American Primitive
- Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
- The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
- The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
- The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
- The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
- Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
*If this is not the "A Poetry Handbook" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link