A review by earthtokb
The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach

informative slow-paced

4.75

very informative, though I would revise the writer’s definition of poetry & say that it is the sound of language organized into patterns. the tradition of poetry started without lines (ex: homer, orally recited poems from before the alohabet existed) and continues today (ex: slam poetry, spoken word). oral poetry doesn’t have lines, but it sure does have patterns (that may or may not include meter, rhyme, repetition, etc)!