false 71652 1 This slender guide by Mary Oliver deserves a place on the shelves of any budding poet. In clear, accessible prose, Oliver (winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry) arms the reader with an understanding of the technical aspects of poetry writing. Her lessons on sound, line (length, meter, breaks), poetic forms (and lack thereof), tone, imagery, and revision are illustrated by a handful of wonderful poems (too bad Oliver was so modest as to not include her own). What could have been a dry account is infused throughout with Oliver's passion for her subject, which she describes as "a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind." One comes away from this volume feeling both empowered and daunted. Writing poetry is good, hard work. 69386 15 8 1994 A Poetry Handbook total:400|5:132|4:144|3:93|2:28|1:3| 400 1574 557 54 3 1 false false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 10:36:29 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 18:30:07 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Dec 08 12:09:52 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 12:09:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Nov 18 17:11:50 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 06:59:30 -0800 2008 5
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