A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

Name: A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
Brand: Ecco Press
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ISBN: 9780062332431

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06 Mar, 2018

By Robert Hass (Author)

From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and...

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ISBN-10:

0062332430

ISBN-13:

9780062332431

Publisher

Ecco Press

No.of Pages

464

Dimensions

8.9 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches

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From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike

A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal terms. But the more intuitive, creative parts of a poet's work and processes are more elusive: if the most interesting aspect of form is the shaping power of the essential, expressive gestures inside it, how do we come to a language in which to speak about form as the search for the radiant shapes-- the wholeness or brokenness--we experience inside powerful works of art?

In suggestive, informal "notes," Haas thinks through the idea of a poem from its barest building blocks--the one line haiku, the brief epigram or prayer--to the complex villanelle and sonnet, and beyond them, to the grand forms of elegy and ode through which poets across human cultures have investigated the shapes of grieving and desiring. His approach singularly employs postmodern perspectives on shape, thought, feeling, content, and movement, calling on Catullus and Allen Ginsberg, Kobayashi Issa and Czeslaw Milosz. Begunb as a project for students of poetry, A Little Book on Form is anything but--Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experience of human thought and feeling in language.

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ISBN-10

: 0062332430

ISBN-13

: 9780062332431

Publisher

: Ecco Press

Publication date

: 06 Mar, 2018

About the Author

Robert Hass -

Robert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco, 2008), Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996), Human Wishes (1989), Praise (1979), and Field Guide (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co