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Questions of possibility : contemporary poetry and poetic form /

"Questions of Possibility" examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of clos...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Caplan, David, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On claimed verse forms
  • "The age of the Sestina"
  • "In that thicket of bitter roots" : the Ghazal in America
  • When a form comes out of the closet
  • Why not the heroic couplet?
  • On the contemporary ballad
  • Prosody after the poetry wars.