"The way Harrison has embedded his entire vision of our predicament implicitly in the particulars of two poetic lives, his own and Yesenin's, is what makes the poem not only his best but one of the best in the past twenty-five years of American writing."--Hayden Carruth, Sulfur

"Harrison inhabits the problems of our age as if they were beasts into which he had crawled, and Letters to Yesenin is a kind of imaginative taxidermy that refuses to stay in place up on the trophy room wall, but insists on walking into the dining room."--The American Poetry...

"The Poem s Heartbeat "may well be the finest general book available on prosody. "Library Journal "(starred review)

A provocative, definitive manual. "Publishers Weekly"

Finally back in print, this slender, user-friendly guide to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks intuitive and technical lightning-flashes for poets and readers curious to know a poem s inner workings. Clear, good-humored, and deeply readable, Alfred Corn s book is "the" modern classic on prosodythe art and science of poetic meter.

Each of the book...