{"product_id":"rules-for-the-dance-a-handbook-for-writing-and-reading-metrical-verse-9780395850862","title":"Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work--and enables readers, as only she can, to \"enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an anthology of fifty poems representing the best metrical poetry in English, from the Elizabethan Age to Elizabeth Bishop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOliver, Mary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave very few interviews over the years. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, Oliver received numerous awards. Her fourth book, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Primitive\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship\/PEN New England Award for \u003ci\u003eHouse of Light\u003c\/i\u003e; the National Book Award for\u003ci\u003e New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605782532370,"sku":"9780395850862","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8a77d35-b8ff-4291-94f0-019ee49934fd.jpg?v=1732282786","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rules-for-the-dance-a-handbook-for-writing-and-reading-metrical-verse-9780395850862","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}