Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form

by David Caplan

Book Overview

Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable.

By means of close attention to the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet, this study advances a new understanding of contemporary American poetry. Rather than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195169573
• ISBN13: 9780195169577
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 5.7"