Justice’s insights serve as a sort of de facto taxonomy, an organically designed system that he uses to present his lecture on each respective aspect of the evolution of poetic form. There is no formal thesis here, but rather a kind of scrapbook that has a broader motive. The material possesses no hidden secrets; the treasures lie in plain sight and simply need be discerned to open the artist’s mind to their possibilities.
Table of Contents
Introduction by David Koehn • Preface by Donald Revell • from “silence and the open field: John Cage and Charles Olson” • Metrical Types in English • A Sampling of Some Classical Statements Regarding Meter • Syllabics • Accentuals (or stress verse) • Dipodic Verse • Accentual-Syllabics • Sound and Sense • Song • Free Verse • Some Rhetorical Figures • Quantitative Verse in English • Practice Exercises • Review • A Selective Bibliography • For the Workbook Modules • Index