TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hass,Robert
TI  - A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry 
SN  - 9780062332431
U1  - 809.1 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Creative ability
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446); Introduction –
; One –
; Two –
; Three –
;  Four –
; A note on numbers –
; Blank verse –
; Sonnet –
; Reading the sonnet –
; Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle –
; A note on genre –; Ode –
; Elegy –
; Reading the elegy –
; Satire – 

; Georgic –; Variable stanzas and organic form –
; Difficult forms – 

; Collage, Abstraction, Oulipo, and Procedural Poetics--

; Mixed forms –
; Prose poem -; A note on stress -
; How to scan a poem –
; How free verse works – 

; Acknowledgments –
; Credits
N2  - "Robert 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.
" ... Hass 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
ER  -