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Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics
By Maxine Kumin (editor), Deborah Brown (editor) and Annie Finch (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Arkansas Pr
Publication date October 30, 2005
Pages 440
Binding Hardcover
Edition Original
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781557287915
ISBN-10 1557287910
Dimensions 1.50 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.85 lbs.
Original list price $54.95
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton, Mackey, Kunitz, and Rukeyser.

The book is divided into three sections. "Musing" concerns issues of inspiration, "Making," issues of craft, from diction to meter to persona and voice, and "Mapping," the role of poetry and the poet. Headnotes at the beginning of each selection provide background information about the poet and commentary on the significance of the selection. There is also a useful appendix with a listing of essays arranged according to more specific topics. As the poets write in their introduction: "This book was intended to deepen readers' understanding of age-old poetic ideas while at the same time pointing out new directions for thinking about poetry, juxtaposing the familiar and the strange, reconfiguring old boundaries, and shaking up stereotypes."



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9781557287915 | details & prices | 440 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.85 lbs | List price $54.95
About: Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics.
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9781557287922 | details & prices | 440 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $27.95

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