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The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781556592812 Author(s): Alfred Corn Format: Paperback Year: 2008 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Dimensions: 140 x 187 x 15 (w x l x h) Pages: 140 Series: Copper Canyon Classics

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Description: ""The Poem's Heartbeat "may well be the finest general book available on prosody."—"Library Journal "(starred review)

"A provocative, definitive manual."—"Publishers Weekly"

Finally back in print, this slender, user-friendly guide to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks "intuitive and technical lightning-fl ashes" for poets and readers curious to know a poem's inner workings. Clear, good-humored, and deeply readable, Alfred Corn's book is "the "modern classic on prosody—the art and science of poetic meter.

Each of the book's ten chapters is a progressive, step-by-step presentation rich with examples to illustrate concepts such as line, stress, scansion marks, slant rhyme, and iambic pentameter. "By the book's end," noted a rave review in "The Boston Review," "Corn, magi-teacher and impeccable guide, has taught the novice to become artist and magician." "The Poem's Heartbeat" also includes a selected bibliography and encourages readers and students to carry their investigations further.

"The word "line" comes from the Latin" linea," itself derived from the word for a thread of linen. We can look at the lines of poetry as slender compositional units forming a weave like that of a textile. Indeed, the word