Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver classics Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

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"-- Dave Eggers

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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver classics Howard NemerovPulitzer prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition. "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