{"product_id":"rules-for-the-dance-mary-oliver-9780395850862","title":"Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, \/ As those move easiest who have learned to dance,\" wrote Alexander Pope. \"The dance,\" in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in the English language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work--and enables readers, as only she can, to \"enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an anthology of fifty poems representing the best metrical poetry in English, from the Elizabethan Age to Elizabeth Bishop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 039585086X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780395850862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.50w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/1998 pg. 1708\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1998 pg. 104","brand":"Mary Oliver","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053552005375,"sku":"9780395850862","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d989aaa-16b2-4413-9ede-c032e6aa46bf.jpg?v=1685024964","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rules-for-the-dance-mary-oliver-9780395850862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}