Offers advice on reading and writing poetry, and discusses imitation, sound, the line, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, and workshops
Mary Oliver?s ?A poetry handbook? is an excellent 101-course type reader that explores important and essential aspects of poetry and writing. Her takes on the making of poetry and her openness to the fresh poetic styles in vogue account for a book that opens creative space and offers writers useful tools and food for thought.
To Oliver, poems exist for the mapping of mysteries and in that sense, their meaning can?t ever be fully grasped or narrowed down. The fact that rereading and h...
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