Title: An exaltation of forms : contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art /
Authors: Finch, Annie, 1956-; Varnes, Kathrine.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Poetry; Poetics; Poetry Themes, motives; American poetry; Poetry, Modern; Poets, American; Poetry History and criticism
Abstract: The editors ask fifty contemporary poets to take a single poetic meter, stanza, or form, then describe it and show examples of how it has helped artistically shape poetry.
Contents: I. Meters. Accentual Verse / Dana Gioia. Syllabics: Sweeter Melodies / Margaret Holley. Counted Verse: Upper Limit Music / Paul Hoover. Iambic Meter / John Ridland. Blank Verse / Anthony Hecht. Anapestics / Charles O. Hartman. Running with Abandon: Some Notes on Trochaic Meter / Carl Phillips. Dactylic Meter: A Mary-Sounding Sea / Annie Finch. Free Verse / Michelle Boisseau. All Composed in a Meter of Catullus: Hendecasyllabics / Rachel Hadas. Pronouncing "Carpenter": Quantitative Meter in English / Rosanna Warren. Off the Main Road: Some Maverick Meters / John Frederick Nims -- II. Stanzas. "The Bravest Sort of Verses": The Heroic Couplet / Timothy Steele. The Self-Engendering Muse: Terza Rima / Felix Stefanile. The Quatrain / John Hollander. Sapphics / Grace Schulman. Ottava Rima / Jacqueline Osherow. Spenser's Eponymous / R.S. Gwynn. The Decima: A Poetic Journey from Spain to New Mexico / Pat Mora --^