The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

"Concise, learned, revisionary... should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."― Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, among others) would enhance their appreciation of poetry. Tracing "the exuberant history of forms," they devote one chapter to each form, offering explanation, close reading, and a rich selection of examplars that amply demonstrate the power and possibility of that form.

• A Poetry Handbook
• Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
• Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)
• Empire (Camino del Sol)
• The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
• The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
• The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Copper Canyon Classics)
• Native Guard: Poems
• The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
• Cannibal (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)