A Poetry Handbook PAPERBACK –1994 by Mary Oliver
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- Condition
- Book Title
- A Poetry Handbook PAPERBACK
- Topic
- A Poetry Handbook PAPERBACK
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0156724006
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Poetry Handbook : a Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Subject
- Style Manuals, General, Poetry, Subjects & Themes / General
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Item Weight
- 5.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156724006
ISBN-13
9780156724005
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77501
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Poetry Handbook : a Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry
Subject
Style Manuals, General, Poetry, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1994
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
5.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
93-049676
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
National Book Award winner Oliver ( New and Selected Poems ) delivers with uncommon concision and good sense that paradoxical thing: a prose guide to writing poetry. Her discussion may be of equal interest to poetry readers and beginning or experienced writers. She's neither a romantic nor a mechanic, but someone who has observed poems and their writing closely and who writes with unassuming authority about the work she and others do, interspersing history and analysis with exemplary poems (the poets include James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and Walt Whitman). Divided into short chapters on sound, the line, imagery, tone, received forms and free verse, the book also considers the need for revision (an Oliver poem typically passes through 40 or 50 drafts before it is done) and the pros and cons of writing workshops. And though her prose is wisely spare, a reader also falls gladly on signs of a poet: ''Who knows anyway what it is, that wild, silky part of ourselves without which no poem can live?'' or ''Poems begin in experience, but poems are not in fact experience . . . they exist in order to be poems.'' (July)
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Ninth Grade
Synopsis
"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook." ??--?? Los Angeles Times From the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry., 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., "Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles Times From the beloved and acclaimed poet, an ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry. With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver's prolific mind--a must-have for all poetry-lovers., "Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."-- Los Angeles Times From the beloved and acclaimed poet, an ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry. With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver's prolific mind--a must-have for all poetry-lovers.
LC Classification Number
PE1505.O35 1994
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A poetry handbook. Exactly what it says, gives tips and pointers.
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- Jun 15, 2021
Mary Oliver's invaluable advice on writing poetry
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Great book!
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- Apr 13, 2024
Great little volume
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- Dec 13, 2021
Must have for any writer of poetry or prose!
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