Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach

Art of the Poetic Line

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Art of the Poetic Line

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Art of the Poetic Line

by James Longenbach

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The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners.

"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines." James Longenbach opens this provocative book with that essential statement. Through a range of examples--from Shakespeare and Milton to Ashbery and Glück--Longenbach describes the function of line in metered, rhymed, syllabic, and free-verse poetry. The Art of the Poetic Line is a vital new resource by one of America's most important critics and most engaging poets.
Book Details
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
ISBN:
9781555974886
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
120
Authors:
James Longenbach
Published Date:
2007-12-26
Language:
English
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About James Longenbach

James Longenbach (1959–2022) was a poet and critic. He held the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professorship of English at the University of Rochester, where he taught from 1985. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, he worked in both forms at once: The Art of the Poetic Line and How Poems Get Made are criticism, on how poems are put together, while Earthling and Forever are collections of his own. Earthling was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Seafarer, which sets new poems beside those two books entire, appeared from Norton in 2024, two years after his death in Stonington, Connecticut.

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