A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM

From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form, tradit ional and modern, for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeIn addition to his magisterial poetry, Robert Hass is beloved for hi s incisive, meditative criticism. A Little Book on Form takes up the central contradiction between poetry as genre and the poetics o f the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about, map, and explain poetry in rigorous formal terms. But the more in...[Read more]