Hunting the snark
a compendium of new poetic terminology
1st ed.
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Word Count
99,000 words, Guess
Page Count
396 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2052324M
- ISBN-101557780528
- OCLC Control Number18560201
- OCLC Control Numberhuntingsnarkcomp0000pete
- Library of Congress Control Number88030122
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- Goodreads615730
- LibraryThing331476
Classifications
- DDC811/.009
- LCCPS323.5 .P49 1989
Description
'''Hunting the Snark''' is a compendium of poetic terminology that mirrored American contemporary poetry of nineteen seventies and eighties written by Robert Peters. The book sorts through contemporary American poems, separating them into nearly a hundred categories. The book’s foreword is written by founder of the New York Quarterly, William Packard. He says, “Hunting the Snark is an extraordinarily well-informed, joyous encomium to poetry itself. It displays the variety and diversity of our contemporary American scene.”His classifications are concepts like: "Sylvia Plath Poems", "Wise Child poems", "Snapshot Poems", "Academic Sleaze", "Fruits-and-Flower-Poems", "Ezra Pound poems", "Jazz Poems", "Self-Pity Poems", "West Coast Poems". The title is a reference to Lewis Caroll’s poem Hunting of the Snark. Peters anthologizes in Hunting the Snark a comprehensive amount of poets and their poems including widely noted poets such as Robert Hass, Billy Collins, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery to obscure noted poets Wilma McDaniel, Paul Vangelisti, David Ray and Alfred Starr Hamilton
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