This book is a collection of pattern poems - poems whose printed format presents a picture of some familiar object that is also the subject of the text. Patterned poems, also called shaped verse, are part of a long tradition that extends from Alexandrian Greek poets to Lewis Carroll and beyond. The poems in this book, written by the poet John Hollander, are on subjects ranging from a beach umbrella and a popsicle to time, love and idea. First published in 1969, the book has now been expanded to include ten recent poems in addition to the original 25, plus an introduction in which Hollander reflects on what a shaped poem is and how and why he wrote them. There are also explanatory comments for each poem.
- ISBN10 0300049749
- ISBN13 9780300049749
- Publish Date 24 April 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 August 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English