Name: rules for the dance,a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse
SKU: 1574994
Price: 366.00 ZAR
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Author: Mary Oliver
ISBN: 9780395850862

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rules for the dance,a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mary Oliver

Publisher

Ecco Press

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9x14x1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

039585086X

ISBN13

9780395850862

Synopsis "rules for the dance,a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse"

Pulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.?Poets and those who simply want to understand poetry will enjoy this study of poetry as a conscious craft.?Breaking down the basics with examples from well-known poems, Oliver shows how the dimensions of sound and rhythm (musicality) and lyrical words (assonance, alliteration, etc.) can combine to make powerful verse. She enables readers to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas."

Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was a distinguished American poet, born in Maple Heights, Ohio. Her work is characterized by a deep connection with nature and a reflection on the human experience. Throughout her career, she received numerous accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 for her collection "American Primitive" and the National Book Award in 1992 for "New and Selected Poems". Among her most notable works are "La escritura indómita" (2021), "Horas de invierno" (2022), and "Nuestro mundo" (2023). Oliver regularly published both poetry and prose, exploring themes such as the intersection between the human and natural world, and the limits of human language to express such a connection.

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