9780062332431-0062332430-A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

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

ISBN-13: 9780062332431
ISBN-10: 0062332430
Edition: Reprint
Author: Robert Hass
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Ecco
Format: Paperback 464 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780062332431
ISBN-10: 0062332430
Edition: Reprint
Author: Robert Hass
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Ecco
Format: Paperback 464 pages

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A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry (ISBN-13: 9780062332431 and ISBN-10: 0062332430), written by authors Robert Hass, was published by Ecco in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Foreign Language Study & Reference books. You can easily purchase or rent A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Foreign Language Study & Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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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 Czesław Miłosz. 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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