Hunting the Snark
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| Author | Robert Peters |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Paragon House |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 396 pp |
| ISBN | 1-55778-052-8 |
Hunting the Snark is a compendium of poetic terminology that mirrored American contemporary poetry of nineteen seventies and eighties written by Robert Peters. The book sorts through contemporary American poems, separating them into nearly a hundred categories. The book's foreword is written by founder of the New York Quarterly, William Packard. He says, “Hunting the Snark is an extraordinarily well-informed, joyous encomium to poetry itself. It displays the variety and diversity of our contemporary American scene.”[1]
His classifications are concepts like: "Sylvia Plath Poems", "Wise Child poems", "Snapshot Poems", "Academic Sleaze", "Fruits-and-Flower-Poems", "Ezra Pound poems", "Jazz Poems", "Self-Pity Poems", "West Coast Poems".
Title
The title is a reference to Lewis Carroll’s poem "The Hunting of the Snark".
