The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition

by Lewis Turco

Overview

Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco’s engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826361899
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	907,361
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lewis Turco is an emeritus professor and the founding director of the Program in Writing Arts at SUNY–Oswego and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. An award-winning author, Turco has published twenty-one collections of poetry and nonfiction, including The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry and The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship, Second Edition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword to the Fifth Edition

Part I. The Elements of Poetry
Introduction
The Typographical Level
The Sonic Level
The Sensory Level
The Ideational Level
Chapter Glossary

Part II. Form-Finder Index
Introduction
Specific Forms
General Forms

Part III. Traditional Verse Forms
Dramatic Poetry
Lyric Poetry
Narrative Poetry

Bibliography
A Chronology of Post-Modern Books Concerning Verse Forms
Author and Title Index
General Index