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'''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.
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Warm, cool, spare and contemplative.
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Robert Peters
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 396
- Publisher
- Paragon House
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781557780522
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