The Making of a Poem – A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms - Hardcover

Strand, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393049167 ISBN 13: 9780393049169

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Synopsis

The anthology uses example and explanation to demonstrate the excitement and entertainment of various poetic forms, including the sonnet, the ode, the elegy and the pastoral. Included are essays by the editors describing their own personal journeys to a form for their poetic voice. Above all this anthology shows that poetic form is a continuing adventure. Poetic form is illustrated not as a series of rules but as a passionate conversation in which every reader can become involved.

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0393049167
• ISBN 13: 9780393049169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398