Description: Good. 0064635481 Library copy with mylar cover and library markings. Great service. Fast shipping. Saving trees 1 page at a time! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. 0064635481 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780064635486ISBN:0064635481
Description: Very good. 1982; Paperback; No notes/hiliting; Clean pages; Lightly edgeworn cover; No dog-ears; Strong binding; back cover is lightly scratched. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge to soft cover. Light page tanning form age. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~childrens Hc
ISBN-13:9780448001234ISBN:0448001233
Description: Very Good. 0448001233 Condition: VERY GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, cover wear, name written inside cover, light underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, etc. Overall, the book is in solid shape. This is a blanket description. Please e us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week of your request). read more
Edition: New Edition Revised and Enlarged 2nd edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. normal library markings, slight yellowing, buy as reader only, mylar jacket. 181 p. lcn-5706502 2nd edition read more
Edition: Fourth Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780064635486ISBN:0064635481
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. Some wear to the covers. Page toning. Otherwise a clean text. read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls, New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: No Illustration. Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR. BLACK CLOTH COVER. INTERIOR PAGES STAMPED "DISCARD" AND HAVE SLIGHT STAINING WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT, LIBRARY CARD HOLDER REMOVED. read more
Edition: 4th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: No Illustrations. Good. No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. GREEN CLOTH COVER IS LIGHTLY FADED WITH LIGHT RUBBING, SPINE WITH LIGHT FADING. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE SMALL TEARS. read more
"I am going to confess that I have not read this book cover to cover, but that I have given up on ever doing so.
I ordered a used copy of this book while I was on my writing retreat at the Harveyville Project in Harveyville, Kansas. I thought it would give me a better understanding of poetry, give me a better grounding in the art of poetry. Boy, was i wrong!
Here's what I wrote about this book for my zine August in Harveyville: Halfway through my month in Harveyville, I ordered a used copy of Poetry Handbook by Babette Deutsch, thinking it would give me a more complete understanding of poetic forms. Instead, I found nearly every entry written in such academic "poet-ese" that most of the time I had no idea what the author was getting at. I'm a smart gal, but this book is mostly above my head, as if Babette were trying to separate the people with Master of Fine Arts degrees from the riff raff like me. I will be reaching for this book next time I can't sleep..."
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