A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
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appears in Poetry Writing, Best Books on Writing, and 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. She talks of iambs and trochees, couplets and sonnets, and how and why this should matter to anyone writing or reading poetry. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and...
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appears in Poetry Writing, Best Books on Writing, and Poetry.
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