{"product_id":"the-poems-heartbeat-a-manual-of-prosody-9781556592812","title":"The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn indispensable guide for poets, readers, students, and teachers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Poem’s Heartbeat \u003c\/i\u003emay well be the finest general book available on prosody.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A provocative, definitive manual.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally back in print, this slender, user-friendly guide to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks “intuitive and technical lightning-flashes” for poets and readers curious to know a poem’s inner workings. Clear, good-humored, and deeply readable, Alfred Corn’s book is \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e modern classic on prosody—the art and science of poetic meter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the book’s ten chapters is a progressive, step-by-step presentation rich with examples to illustrate concepts such as line, stress, scansion marks, slant rhyme, and iambic pentameter. “By the book’s end,” noted a rave review in \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, “Corn, magi-teacher and impeccable guide, has taught the novice to become artist and magician.” \u003ci\u003eThe Poem’s Heartbeat\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a selected bibliography and encourages readers and students to carry their investigations further.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe word “line” comes from the Latin\u003c\/i\u003e linea\u003ci\u003e, itself derived from the word for a thread of linen. We can look at the lines of poetry as slender compositional units forming a weave like that of a textile. Indeed, the word “text” has the same origin as the word “textile.” It isn’t difficult to compare the compositional process to weaving, where thread moves from left to right, reaches the margin of the text, then shuttles back to begin the next unit . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359611683159,"sku":"9781556592812","price":15.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-poems-heartbeat-a-manual-of-prosody-9781556592812","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}