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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms Sports_Gift_Guide in the land of mist-shrouded"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)