TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hass,Robert
TI  - A little book on form: an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry 
SN  - 9780062332424
U1  - 809.1 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Creative ability
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446); Introduction --; One --; Two --; Three --; Four --; A note on numbers --; Blank verse --; Sonnet --; Reading the sonnet --; Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle --; A note on genre --; Ode --; Reading the ode --; Elegy --; Reading the elegy --; Satire --; Georgic --; Variable stanzas and organic form --; Difficult forms --; Collage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics --; Mixed forms --; Prose poem --; A note on stress --; How to scan a poem --; How free verse works --; Acknowledgments --; Credits
N2  - "Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, "--NoveList; " ... Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experiences of human thought and feeling in language"--Jacket
ER  -