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Rating:  - Great reference!
If you're studying poetry for pleasure or for school, you need this book.
Rating: - great resource
This book is great for those who need to write poems in specific forms for class or for personal writing. Explains forms from sestina and sonnet to elegy. Great source for any poet.
Rating: - Clear, concise and useful
This book gives a brief history of a form, information on its construction, and follows these with examples of the form in use. The examples begin with older, classic poems in the form and are followed by more modern adaptations.
I have found more modern examples lacking in many of the books I have read on form. Seeing more recent examples helps illustrate the usefulness of form to the modern writer. It could also be extremely helpful to writers in adapting traditional forms to their own work.
The descriptions of the forms are terse, but quite adequate, assuming the reader already knows what an iamb is. The examples are well-chosen and varied. It gives a good basic understanding of the forms it discusses and would be a wonderful starting point for writing formed verse.
Rating: - great transaction
Prompt shiping and and the book was just like it was described. Thanks. Sara
Rating:  - This book is fantastic.
It's organized well, though I would like to have had a few more poetic forms presented. Perhaps they will (or have already) put together a second edition. I enjoyed reading about the styles that were presented in this book, the little bit of history about the style, and the examples included. This is actually a very fun book about poetry, as the descriptions given are explained very well which inspired me to try my hand at the forms immediately.
My only regret is that I've misplaced my copy.
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