{"product_id":"rules-for-the-dance-a-handbook-for-writing-and-reading-metrical-verse-9780395850862","title":"Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003ePulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoets and those who simply want to understand poetry will enjoy this study of poetry as a conscious craft.?\u003cbr\u003eBreaking down the basics with examples from well-known poems, Oliver shows how the dimensions of sound and rhythm (musicality) and lyrical words (assonance, alliteration, etc.) can combine to make powerful verse. She enables readers to enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.50w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780395850862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOliver, Mary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave very few interviews over the years. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver received numerous awards. Her fourth book, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Primitive\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship\/PEN New England Award for \u003ci\u003eHouse of Light\u003c\/i\u003e; the National Book Award for\u003ci\u003e New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39823234007155,"sku":"9780395850862","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_acfd2135-4c82-444e-9b64-248d3d6db1ff.jpg?v=1644526638","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/rules-for-the-dance-a-handbook-for-writing-and-reading-metrical-verse-9780395850862","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}