A Poetry Handbook

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994 - 130 Seiten
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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. She talks of iambs and trochees, couplets and sonnets, and how and why this should matter to anyone writing or reading poetry. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space.

"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles Times

 

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Nutzerbericht  - railheater - LibraryThing

"To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from a dream." This line is not found until a hundred some pages into the book, but it was absolutely my favorite one. It was ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Nutzerbericht  - rmckeown - LibraryThing

Mary Oliver is quickly becoming one of my favorite poets. Her latest collection, Blue Horses, pleases the eye and ear every bit as much as all of her previous works I have read. As is true of many of ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Inhalt

INTRODUCTION
1
GETTING READY
7
READING POEMS
56
IMITATION
128
Urheberrecht

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Über den Autor (1994)

A private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave very few interviews over the years. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She 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.

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TitelA Poetry Handbook
A Harvest original
Autor/inMary Oliver
AusgabeBrailleschrift
VerlagHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994
ISBN0156724006, 9780156724005
Länge130 Seiten
  
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