A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

A Little Book on Form

An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

2014 • 464 pages

"Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop,"--NoveList.


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