Books of Poetics

Coming Soon:

A Poet's Craft:  The Making and Shaping of Poems

An accessible, in-depth guide to every aspect of writing poetry

University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming 2010.

 

A Poet's Ear: A Guide to Meter and Form

An accessible, in-depth guide to poetic form and meter

University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming 2010.

 

Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form

Coedited with Susan Schultz

At long last, language poetry meets new formalism—and the poems fly!

Wordtech Editions, Forthcoming 2008.

 

Available Now:

 

The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Poets on Poetry Series
[Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.]

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The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse
[Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. Paperback edition with new preface, 2001.]

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An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art
[Coedited with Katherine Varnes. University of Michigan Press, 2002.]

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A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women
Soon to be rereleased by Wordtech Editions.  Story Line, 1994.

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Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics
[Co-editor with Maxine Kumin and Deborah Brown. University of Arkansas Press, 2005]

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Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life and Work
[Co-editor with Johanna Keller and Candace McClelland. CavanKerry Press, 2000.]

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After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition
[Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1999.]

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