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100 1 $aHass, Robert,$eauthor.
245 12$aA little book on form :$ban exploration into the formal imagination of poetry /$cRobert Hass.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,$c2018.
300 $ax, 446 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 433-446).
505 00$tIntroduction --$tOne --$tTwo --$tThree --$tFour --$tA note on numbers --$tBlank verse --$tSonnet --$tReading the sonnet --$tVictorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle - -$tA note on genre --$tOde --$tReading the ode --$tElegy - -$tReading the elegy --$tSatire --$tGeorgic --$tVariable stanzas and organic form --$tDifficult forms --$tCollage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics --$tMixed forms --$tProse poem --$tA note on stress --$tHow to scan a poem --$tHowfree verse works --$tAcknowledgments --$tCredits.
520 $aRobert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize-- illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, --NoveList.
520 $aHass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experiences of human thought and feeling in language-- Jacket.
650 0$aPoetry$xHistory and criticism.
650 0$aLiterary form.
650 0$aCreative ability.
650 0$aPoetry$xAuthorship.
650 0$aCreative writing.