“This is a book for anyone,” Glyn Maxwell declares of On
Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art,
it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to
understand why and how poetic technique matters. When Maxwell
states, “With rhyme what matters is the distance between
rhymes” or “the line-break is punctuation,” he compresses
into simple, memorable phrases a great deal of practical wisdom. In
seven chapters whose weird, gnomic titles announce the singularity
of the book—“White,” “Black,” “Form,” “Pulse,”
“Chime,” “Space,” and “Time”—the poet explores his
belief that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and
body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities: breath,
heartbeat, footstep, posture. “The sound of form in poetry
descended from song, molded by breath, is the sound of that
creature yearning to leave a mark. The meter says tick-tock. The
rhyme says remember. The whiteness says alone,” Maxwell writes.
To illustrate his argument, he draws upon personal touchstones such
as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. An experienced teacher,
Maxwell also takes us inside the world of the creative writing
class, where we learn from the experiences of four aspiring poets.
“You master form you master time,” Maxwell says. In this guide
to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature,
Maxwell shares his mastery with us.
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