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  • The Art of the Poetic Line

    by James Longenbach ...
    Series series Art of...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lyric Now

    by James Longenbach ...
    A poet and scholar explores how lyric poetry works by examining the lives and works of thirteen twentieth- and twenty-first–century American poets and musicians.For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Poems Get Made

    by James Longenbach ...
    A comprehensive guide to writing or reading poetry, by “one of our most lucid and important critics” (American Academy of Arts and Letters).Why does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exemplary poems, from Shakespeare through Blake, Dickinson, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Seafarer

    New Poems with Earthling and Forever

    by James Longenbach ...
    The final collection of new poems from acclaimed poet James Longenbach, together with two previous volumes that confront mortality.Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clarity. Seafarer opens with a gorgeous sequence in which the poet looks down on his life from above, as if he’s already left it behind. ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • The Virtues of Poetry

    by James Longenbach ...
    An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe)"This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Forever

    Poems

    by James Longenbach ...
    In lucid, elegant poems, Forever contemplates love against the pressing question of mortality after a diagnosis of cancer.Praised for a voice with "the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet" (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived with the knowledge of its end in his sixth collection. These luminous, lyrical poems pose a question: Why did this poet once live as if ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Earthling

    Poems

    by James Longenbach ...
    **A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistEarthling confronts our deepest fears in clear and haunting language, from "a poet of extraordinary gifts" (American Academy of Arts and Letters).**"Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Art of the Poetic Line

    by James Longenbach ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...
    Series series Art of.

    Unabridged

    2 hours 45 min

    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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

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    From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all ... Read more

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  • How To Read A Poem

    And Fall in Love with Poetry

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    From the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning poet and critic: "A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom." — The Baltimore SunHow to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry, feeling, and human nature. In language at once acute and emotional, Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous ... Read more

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  • Come, Thief

    Poems

    by Jane Hirshfield ...
    A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms.Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself with its finite music—and then, in seemingly simple, inevitable words, to deliver that exchange to us in poems ... Read more

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  • Why Poetry

    by Matthew Zapruder ...
    "Zapruder is the ideal narrator to debunk mistaken ideas about the art and claim that the ways we teach poetry are what prevent us from enjoying it." — San Francisco ChronicleIn Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. ... Read more

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