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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

by Mark Strand (Author), Mark Strand (Author), Mark Strand (Author), Eavan Boland (Author), Eavan Boland (Author)

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Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form : a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among others) would enhance their appreciation of poetry. Tracing the exuberant history of forms, they devote one chapter to each form, offering explanation, close reading, and a rich selection of examplars that amply demonstrate the power and possibility of that form.

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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ISBN 10: 0393321789
ISBN 13: 9780393321784

Media Reviews
A generous and exquisitely selective anthology of poetry forms that may make you decide to give up E-mail and start writing sestinas and villanelles. -- Francine Prose - Elle
A marvelous new anthology... intended for readers daunted by terminology and complex poetic forms. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
This is the book writers and readers, teachers and students, have been dreaming of-canny, generous, and practical, Boland and Strand are ideal guides through the golden labyrinth of poetry at its most ingenious and commanding. A marvelous collection! -- J.D. McClatchy
Much more poetry than commentary appears, making the book both a splendid classroom text and, since the selections are top-drawer poems by first-rate poets, a book any poetry lover or would-be poetry lover may learn from and love. -- Booklist
Author Bio
Eavan Boland is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and nonfiction. A professor and the director of the creative writing program at Stanford University, she is the winner of a Lannan Foundation Award. She lives in Stanford, California, and Dublin, Ireland. Mark Strand (1934-2014) won the Pulitzer Prize for Blizzard of One and was Poet Laureate of the United States.