A Poetry Handbook

A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

Author: Mary Oliver
ISBN: 2900156724004

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.

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Subjects: Poetry

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