{"product_id":"a-little-book-on-form-an-exploration-into-the-formal-imagination-of-poetry-paperback","title":"A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Hass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal terms. But the more intuitive, creative parts of a poet's work and processes are more elusive: if the most interesting aspect of form is the shaping power of the essential, expressive gestures inside it, how do we come to a language in which to speak about form as the search for the radiant shapes-- the wholeness or brokenness--we experience inside powerful works of art? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn suggestive, informal \"notes,\" Haas thinks through the idea of a poem from its barest building blocks--the one line haiku, the brief epigram or prayer--to the complex villanelle and sonnet, and beyond them, to the grand forms of elegy and ode through which poets across human cultures have investigated the shapes of grieving and desiring. His approach singularly employs postmodern perspectives on shape, thought, feeling, content, and movement, calling on Catullus and Allen Ginsberg, Kobayashi Issa and Czeslaw Milosz. Begunb as a project for students of poetry, \u003cem\u003eA Little Book on Form \u003c\/em\u003eis anything but--Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experience of human thought and feeling in language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal terms. But the more intuitive, creative parts of a poet's work and processes are more elusive: if the most interesting aspect of the form is the shaping power of the essential, expressive gestures inside it, how do we come to language in which to speak about form as the search for the radiant shapes--the wholeness or brokenness--we experience inside powerful works of art? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn suggestive, informal \"notes,\" former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Robert Hass thinks through the idea of a poem from its barest building blocks to the grand forms of elegy and ode through which poets across human cultures have investigated the shapes of grieving and desiring. 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But the more intuitive, creative parts of a poet's work and processes are more elusive: if the most interesting aspect of the form is the shaping power of the essential, expressive gestures inside it, how do we come to language in which to speak about form as the search for the radiant shapes--the wholeness or brokenness--we experience inside powerful works of art? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn suggestive, informal \"notes,\" former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Robert Hass thinks through the idea of a poem from its barest building blocks to the grand forms of elegy and ode through which poets across human cultures have investigated the shapes of grieving and desiring. 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