{"product_id":"lofty-dogmas-deborah-brown-9781557287915","title":"Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics","description":"Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton, Mackey, Kunitz, and Rukeyser. \u003cbr\u003eThe book is divided into three sections. \"Musing\" concerns issues of inspiration, \"Making,\" issues of craft, from diction to meter to persona and voice, and \"Mapping,\" the role of poetry and the poet. Headnotes at the beginning of each selection provide background information about the poet and commentary on the significance of the selection. There is also a useful appendix with a listing of essays arranged according to more specific topics. As the poets write in their introduction: \"This book was intended to deepen readers' understanding of age-old poetic ideas while at the same time pointing out new directions for thinking about poetry, juxtaposing the familiar and the strange, reconfiguring old boundaries, and shaking up stereotypes.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557287910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557287915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2006 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended","brand":"Deborah Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48518908051711,"sku":"9781557287915","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7e50e7fd-f1ca-4e75-a379-b23f8b515fa1.jpg?v=1778736111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lofty-dogmas-deborah-brown-9781557287915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}