Handbook of Poetic Forms
This bestselling reference guide includes 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms. Defined in alphabetical order, each entry is allotted 1-7 pages with examples and histories of-and ideas for using-each form.\ \ A reference guide to various forms of poetry with entries arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry defines the form and gives its history, examples, and suggestions for usage.\
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For the Handbook, 19 teaching poets have written 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms. The Handbook succinctly defines the forms, summarizes their histories, quotes good examples (ancient and modern, by adults and young writers), and offers professional tricks of the trade on how to use each form. In most cases, the origins of the names of the forms (as well as phonetic guides to their pronunciations) are given. Entries are cross-referenced, and a bibliography and list of cited authors are included. Among the 76 entries are the abstract poem, acrostic, allegory, ballad, ballade, blank verse, blues poem, bout-rimes, calligram, canto, cento, concrete poem, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, free verse, ghazal, macaronic, madrigal, occasional poem, ode, ottava rima, pantoum, performance poem, projective verse, prose poem, rap, renga, rondeau, senryu, sestina, sonnet, syllabic verse, terza rima, triolet, villanelle, and many others. The Handbook gives examples from Shakespeare, Woody Guthrie, John Bunyan, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, Francois Villon, Christopher Marlowe, Elizabeth Bishop, John Milton, Langston Hughes, John Ashbery, Dante, Ezra Pound, Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Ted Berrigan, Pablo Neruda, Anne Waldman, T. S. Eliot, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Percy Shelley, and many others, including Eskimo and Native American Poems.
AcknowledgmentsviiTable of FiguresxiiPrefacexiiiPoetic FormsAbstract Poem1Acrostic4Allegory6Alliteration8Alphabet Poem11Apostrophe14Assonance16Ballad18Ballade22Blank Verse25Blues Poem29Bouts-Rimes32Calligram34Canto38Canzone40Cento42Chant45Cinquain49Collaboration51Concrete Poem53Couplet58Eclogue60Elegy62Epic65Epigram67Epistle69Epitaph71Epithalamium73Event Poem74Foot76Found Poem79Free Verse82Ghazal84Haiku86Imitation89Insult Poem91Light Verse93Limerick94Line96List Poem100Lune103Lyric105Macaronic Verse107Madrigal110Metaphor112Nonsense Verse115Occasional Poem117Ode118Ottava Rima124Pantoum126Parody129Pastoral Poem132Performance Poem134Projective Verse140Prose Poem142Quatrain144Rap146Renga148Rhyme152Rhythm154Ritual Poem156Rondeau160Satire163Senryu168Sestina170Skeltonic Verse175Sonnet178Spoonerism181Stanza183Syllabic Verse185Tanka187Tercet189Terza Rima192Triolet194Villanelle197Walk Poem200Word Play207Appendix AOther Forms208Appendix BAuthors Cited209Bibliography215Other Resources: Audiocassettes223Videocassettes224CD-ROMs226Web Sites227
