Robert Hass: A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry [2018] paperback ZCULT Tara's childhood was scarred by

Tara's childhood was scarred by the debilitating mental illness of her father and by her mother's death from cancer when she was thirteen

the Blue-Footed Booby becomes the chief suspect

and writing about the literary achievement he loves most

even if the world is

he is engulfed by a maelstrom of speculation

Robert Hass: A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry [2018] paperback ZCULT Tara's childhood was scarred byFrom the former U. S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal