{"product_id":"rhymes-rooms-the-architecture-of-poetry-hardcover","title":"Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrad Leithauser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Anyone wanting to learn how to remodel, restore, or build a poem from the foundation up, will find this room-by-room guide on the architecture of poetry a warm companion.\" --Tomás Q. Morín, author of \u003ci\u003eMachete\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe treasure our greatest poetry, Brad Leithauser reminds us in these pages, \"not for its \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e but its \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e.\" In chapters on everything from iambic pentameter to how stanzas are put together to \"rhyme and the way we really talk,\" Leithauser takes a deep dive into that \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e--the very architecture of poetry. He explains how meter and rhyme work in fruitful opposition (\"Meter is prospective; rhyme is retrospective\"); how the weirdnesses of spelling in English are a boon to the poet; why an off rhyme will often succeed where a perfect rhyme would not; why Shakespeare and Frost can sound so similar, despite the centuries separating them. And Leithauser is just as likely to invoke Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, or Boz Scaggs as he is Chaucer or Milton, Bishop or Swenson, providing enlightening play-by-plays of their memorable lines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis both an indispensable learning tool and a delightful journey into the art of the poem--a chance for new poets and readers of poetry to grasp the fundamentals, and for experienced poets and readers to rediscover excellent works in all their fascinating detail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePortions of this book have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRAD LEITHAUSER is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of Elsewhere, \u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship. This is his eighteenth book. He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore and Amherst, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.3 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767462428960,"sku":"9780525655053","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/99857370f4787dba3ab065a0f5bb166f.webp?v=1780311633","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rhymes-rooms-the-architecture-of-poetry-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}