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A Poetry Handbook

Mary Oliver
4.8
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Duration
3h 33m
Year
2024
Language
English
Publisher
HarperCollins

About

From the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.

With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver's prolific mind—a must-have for all poetry-lovers.

Related Subjects

  • Poetry (Literary Criticism)
  • Literary Criticism
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Poetry (Writing)
  • Writing
  • Language Arts & Disciplines

Reviews

The best poets get that way because they have given a great deal of thought to questions such as: "What is poetry?" "How does it get that way?" Mary Oliver was one of those best poets, and in this audio version of her classic work about how to write and read poetry she offers some answers, both detailed and expansive, to John Ciardi's classic question: "How does a poem mean?" Kimberly Farr's perfo
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Mary OliverAuthor
Kimberly FarrReader

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