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An exaltation of forms : contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art, edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes
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- Summary
- The editors ask fifty contemporary poets to take a single poetic meter, stanza, or form, then describe it and show examples of how it has helped artistically shape poetry
- Language
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- eng
- mul
- eng
- Extent
- 442 pages
- Contents
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- I. Meters. Accentual Verse / Dana Gioia. Syllabics: Sweeter Melodies / Margaret Holley. Counted Verse: Upper Limit Music / Paul Hoover. Iambic Meter / John Ridland. Blank Verse / Anthony Hecht. Anapestics / Charles O. Hartman. Running with Abandon: Some Notes on Trochaic Meter / Carl Phillips. Dactylic Meter: A Mary-Sounding Sea / Annie Finch. Free Verse / Michelle Boisseau. All Composed in a Meter of Catullus: Hendecasyllabics / Rachel Hadas. Pronouncing "Carpenter": Quantitative Meter in English / Rosanna Warren. Off the Main Road: Some Maverick Meters / John Frederick Nims
- II. Stanzas. "The Bravest Sort of Verses": The Heroic Couplet / Timothy Steele. The Self-Engendering Muse: Terza Rima / Felix Stefanile. The Quatrain / John Hollander. Sapphics / Grace Schulman. Ottava Rima / Jacqueline Osherow. Spenser's Eponymous / R.S. Gwynn. The Decima: A Poetic Journey from Spain to New Mexico / Pat Mora
- III. Received Forms. The Folk Ballad / W.D. Snodgrass. The Ballade: Exquisite Intricacy / Judith Barrington. The Blues / Raymond R. Patterson. Taking Shape: The Art of Carmina Figurata / Jan D. Hodge. Gists, Piths, and Poison-Pills: The Art of the Epigram / X.J. Kennedy. Ghazal: To Be Teased into DisUnity / Agha Shahid Ali. Haiku / Jean Hyung Yul Chu. Hip-Hop Rhyme Formations: Open Your Ears / Tracie Morris. Japanese-Style Linked Poems / William J. Higginson and Penny Harter. Form Lite: Limericks and Clerihews / Gail White. A Wand Made of Words: The Litany Poem / Nancy Willard. Musical Form and Formalist Poetry / Rob Hardin. The Pantoum's Postcolonial Pedigree / Vince Gotera. Strange Tales and Bitter Emergencies: A Few Notes on the Prose Poem / Michel Delville and Maxine Chernoff. The Metrics of Rap / DJ Renegade. Rondeaux and Roundels / Thomas M. Disch. Sestina: The End Game / Lewis Turco. The Sonnet / Marilyn Hacker. Triolet: Trippingly on the Tongue / Kathleene West. Gymnastics: The Villanelle / Maxine Kumin
- IV. Principles for Formal Experimentation. Organic Form / Hilda Morley. Fractal Amplifications / Alice Fulton. Performance Poetry / Bob Holman. Beyond Found Poetry / Keith Tuma. The List Poem / David Lehman. Procedural Poetry: The Intentions of Nonintention / Jena Osman. Nude Formalism: A Sampler / Charles Bernstein. Oulipian Poetry / Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Two American Verse Forms: The Cinquain and the Quatern / Allison Joseph. The Low Coup as a Contemporary Afro-American Verse Form / Amiri Baraka. The Paradelle / Billy Collins. Predetermined Avant-Garde Forms / Mark Wallace
- Isbn
- 9780472067251
- Label
- An exaltation of forms : contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art
- Title
- An exaltation of forms
- Title remainder
- contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes
- Title variation
- Of forms
- Language
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- eng
- mul
- eng
- Summary
- The editors ask fifty contemporary poets to take a single poetic meter, stanza, or form, then describe it and show examples of how it has helped artistically shape poetry
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Cataloging source
- MUU
- Dewey number
- 809.1
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- music
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Chiefly in English; includes some poems in various languages
- LC call number
- PN1064
- LC item number
- .E94 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Finch, Annie
- Varnes, Kathrine
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- Poetry
- Poetry
- Poetics
- American poetry
- Poetry, Modern
- American poetry
- Poetics
- Poetry
- Poetry, Modern
- Poetry
- Lyrik
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Englisch
- Label
- An exaltation of forms : contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art, edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-416) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I. Meters. Accentual Verse / Dana Gioia. Syllabics: Sweeter Melodies / Margaret Holley. Counted Verse: Upper Limit Music / Paul Hoover. Iambic Meter / John Ridland. Blank Verse / Anthony Hecht. Anapestics / Charles O. Hartman. Running with Abandon: Some Notes on Trochaic Meter / Carl Phillips. Dactylic Meter: A Mary-Sounding Sea / Annie Finch. Free Verse / Michelle Boisseau. All Composed in a Meter of Catullus: Hendecasyllabics / Rachel Hadas. Pronouncing "Carpenter": Quantitative Meter in English / Rosanna Warren. Off the Main Road: Some Maverick Meters / John Frederick Nims -- II. Stanzas. "The Bravest Sort of Verses": The Heroic Couplet / Timothy Steele. The Self-Engendering Muse: Terza Rima / Felix Stefanile. The Quatrain / John Hollander. Sapphics / Grace Schulman. Ottava Rima / Jacqueline Osherow. Spenser's Eponymous / R.S. Gwynn. The Decima: A Poetic Journey from Spain to New Mexico / Pat Mora -- III. Received Forms. The Folk Ballad / W.D. Snodgrass. The Ballade: Exquisite Intricacy / Judith Barrington. The Blues / Raymond R. Patterson. Taking Shape: The Art of Carmina Figurata / Jan D. Hodge. Gists, Piths, and Poison-Pills: The Art of the Epigram / X.J. Kennedy. Ghazal: To Be Teased into DisUnity / Agha Shahid Ali. Haiku / Jean Hyung Yul Chu. Hip-Hop Rhyme Formations: Open Your Ears / Tracie Morris. Japanese-Style Linked Poems / William J. Higginson and Penny Harter. Form Lite: Limericks and Clerihews / Gail White. A Wand Made of Words: The Litany Poem / Nancy Willard. Musical Form and Formalist Poetry / Rob Hardin. The Pantoum's Postcolonial Pedigree / Vince Gotera. Strange Tales and Bitter Emergencies: A Few Notes on the Prose Poem / Michel Delville and Maxine Chernoff. The Metrics of Rap / DJ Renegade. Rondeaux and Roundels / Thomas M. Disch. Sestina: The End Game / Lewis Turco. The Sonnet / Marilyn Hacker. Triolet: Trippingly on the Tongue / Kathleene West. Gymnastics: The Villanelle / Maxine Kumin -- IV. Principles for Formal Experimentation. Organic Form / Hilda Morley. Fractal Amplifications / Alice Fulton. Performance Poetry / Bob Holman. Beyond Found Poetry / Keith Tuma. The List Poem / David Lehman. Procedural Poetry: The Intentions of Nonintention / Jena Osman. Nude Formalism: A Sampler / Charles Bernstein. Oulipian Poetry / Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Two American Verse Forms: The Cinquain and the Quatern / Allison Joseph. The Low Coup as a Contemporary Afro-American Verse Form / Amiri Baraka. The Paradelle / Billy Collins. Predetermined Avant-Garde Forms / Mark Wallace
- Control code
- ocm49279902
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 442 pages
- Isbn
- 9780472067251
- Lccn
- 2002280957
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- music
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o49279902
- (OCoLC)49279902
- Label
- An exaltation of forms : contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art, edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-416) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I. Meters. Accentual Verse / Dana Gioia. Syllabics: Sweeter Melodies / Margaret Holley. Counted Verse: Upper Limit Music / Paul Hoover. Iambic Meter / John Ridland. Blank Verse / Anthony Hecht. Anapestics / Charles O. Hartman. Running with Abandon: Some Notes on Trochaic Meter / Carl Phillips. Dactylic Meter: A Mary-Sounding Sea / Annie Finch. Free Verse / Michelle Boisseau. All Composed in a Meter of Catullus: Hendecasyllabics / Rachel Hadas. Pronouncing "Carpenter": Quantitative Meter in English / Rosanna Warren. Off the Main Road: Some Maverick Meters / John Frederick Nims -- II. Stanzas. "The Bravest Sort of Verses": The Heroic Couplet / Timothy Steele. The Self-Engendering Muse: Terza Rima / Felix Stefanile. The Quatrain / John Hollander. Sapphics / Grace Schulman. Ottava Rima / Jacqueline Osherow. Spenser's Eponymous / R.S. Gwynn. The Decima: A Poetic Journey from Spain to New Mexico / Pat Mora -- III. Received Forms. The Folk Ballad / W.D. Snodgrass. The Ballade: Exquisite Intricacy / Judith Barrington. The Blues / Raymond R. Patterson. Taking Shape: The Art of Carmina Figurata / Jan D. Hodge. Gists, Piths, and Poison-Pills: The Art of the Epigram / X.J. Kennedy. Ghazal: To Be Teased into DisUnity / Agha Shahid Ali. Haiku / Jean Hyung Yul Chu. Hip-Hop Rhyme Formations: Open Your Ears / Tracie Morris. Japanese-Style Linked Poems / William J. Higginson and Penny Harter. Form Lite: Limericks and Clerihews / Gail White. A Wand Made of Words: The Litany Poem / Nancy Willard. Musical Form and Formalist Poetry / Rob Hardin. The Pantoum's Postcolonial Pedigree / Vince Gotera. Strange Tales and Bitter Emergencies: A Few Notes on the Prose Poem / Michel Delville and Maxine Chernoff. The Metrics of Rap / DJ Renegade. Rondeaux and Roundels / Thomas M. Disch. Sestina: The End Game / Lewis Turco. The Sonnet / Marilyn Hacker. Triolet: Trippingly on the Tongue / Kathleene West. Gymnastics: The Villanelle / Maxine Kumin -- IV. Principles for Formal Experimentation. Organic Form / Hilda Morley. Fractal Amplifications / Alice Fulton. Performance Poetry / Bob Holman. Beyond Found Poetry / Keith Tuma. The List Poem / David Lehman. Procedural Poetry: The Intentions of Nonintention / Jena Osman. Nude Formalism: A Sampler / Charles Bernstein. Oulipian Poetry / Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Two American Verse Forms: The Cinquain and the Quatern / Allison Joseph. The Low Coup as a Contemporary Afro-American Verse Form / Amiri Baraka. The Paradelle / Billy Collins. Predetermined Avant-Garde Forms / Mark Wallace
- Control code
- ocm49279902
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 442 pages
- Isbn
- 9780472067251
- Lccn
- 2002280957
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- music
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o49279902
- (OCoLC)49279902
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