Questions of Possibility

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Questions of Possibility is written by David Caplan and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190290838 (ISBN 10) and 9780190290832 (ISBN 13).

Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. The poetic forms discussed include the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet.