De/Compositions : 101 good poems gone wrong

by W. D. Snodgrass

Paper Book, 2001

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St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2001.

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Illustrating how the poems we love could have been written differently, or even badly, the author rewrites poems by authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Shakespeare, and displays the reworked version side-by-side with the original, so one can gain a better understanding of the original work's merits.

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