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A Poetry Handbook

A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry
By Mary Oliver
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With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver explains the basic ways a poem is built—meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in... Read More
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A Poetry Handbook

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. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a short space.

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With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver explains the basic ways a poem is built—meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense.

Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. A Poetry Handbook is a master class in writing and appreciating poetry.

Stunning (Los Angeles Times).

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780156724005

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 111g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Mary Oliver (1935–2019), one of the most popular and widely honored poets in the U.S., was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, she received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive in 1984. Oliver also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. She lived most of her life in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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