A Poet’s Ear (a Handbook Of Meter And Form)

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By (author) Finch Annie

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From the basic meters and traditional European forms of the ballad and the sonnet to poetic forms brought to English from worldwide cultures and postmodern forms and techniques, this title serves as both a survey and a guide to the exploration of poetic form. It is suitable for students of poetry focused on the art of structuring a poem.

For beginning or advanced students of poetry focused on the art of structuring a poem, A Poet”s Ear serves as a handbook to writing in numerous fixed forms. Here, Annie Finch”s remarkably in-depth introduction to poetic form in English opens a new and exciting world to contemporary poets. From the basic meters and traditional European forms of the ballad and the sonnet to poetic forms brought to English from worldwide cultures and postmodern forms and techniques, A Poet”s Ear serves as both a survey and a guide to the exploration of poetic form. More diverse and comprehensive than any other form handbook, A Poet”s Ear will be essential to the serious student of poetry.

Biographical note

Poet, translator, and critic
Annie Finch is Director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA programme at the University of Southern Maine. She is coeditor, with Kathrine Varnes, of An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, and author of The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, Eve, and Calendars. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.