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"Poet Annie Finch shares her lifelong passion for meter and scansion with poetry lovers and poets in this uniquely useful book. From the basic tools and fundamental 3 steps of scansion to the most complex metrical delights, How to Scan a Poem covers it all: accentual poems, anapests, trochees, iambs, dactyls, and more, with sample poems you can scan right in the book and explorations of the all-important connections between meter and meaning. The art of Deep Scansion you will learn here invites you to enter the poet's own voice, mind, and inner ear in the most intimate of ways. ""Scansion is widely considered to be a way of thinking-and yet it is a way of hearing, a way of feeling, a way of listening, a way of dancing. Truly, scansion is a way of living."" -Annie Finch"

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"""Scansion is widely considered to be a way of thinking-and yet it is a way of hearing, a way of feeling, a way of listening, a way of dancing. Truly, scansion is a way of living. If meter is the stage on which a poem's deepest changes can happen, scansion adds the dimension of magical awareness that invites meaning to emerge from change: expectation, pattern, release."" -Annie Finch ""Annie Finch taught me to discover the music in my own body. I have never encountered again someone so unflinchingly passionate about the art of poetry. My continuing joy in the possibilities of the written line can be traced to the moment I found Annie Finch."" -Patricia Smith, Winner, National Poetry Award for Blood Dazzler Annie Finch remains three beats ahead of the rank-and-file herd of traditional prosodists."" -Art New England I would bet that a whole generation of critics will learn from Annie Finch how to hear the poems they read."" -Style"

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