The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics Including Odd and Invented Forms - Softcover

Turco, Lewis Putnam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611680352 ISBN 13: 9781611680355

Publisher: University Press of New England, 2012

Synopsis

For decades Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms has been standard in the libraries of writers, teachers, scholars, and others who care about the craft of poetry. Now Turco has expanded and updated "the poet's bible" once again, this time incorporating a collection of "odd and invented forms," which adds many interesting ancient and modern prosodies and forms with new examples written by contemporary poets old and young. Turco presents "The Rules of Scansion," discusses the "levels" of poetry-the typographical, the sonic, the sensory, and the ideational-and proffers the ever-useful "Form-Finder Index."

About this title

About the Author

LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO is an emeritus professor of English, and founding director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and of the Department of Creative Writing at the State University of New York College at Oswego. He has published original books of criticism, drama, fiction, memoirs, reference, and twenty-six collections of his poems.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611680352
• ISBN 13: 9781611680355
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456