The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Eavan Boland"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)

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The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut

In the dark days that follow

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he struggles to process the life-ruining end of his relationship with the only woman he's ever truly loved

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