Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0882298054, Paperback)

This is more than an introduction to poetry text, but is uniquely designed to be self-contained and self-educational.It begins with five poems representing five kinds of poetry from which almost all the examples throughout the text are taken, and these five poems receive brief but complete (as far as they go) analyses in the appendix. Unlike most such introductory texts, moreover, Inside Poetry Out keeps to practical discussions of poetry. No information is given merely for the sake of information. The book is built on the premise that the better you understand a poem the more you will enjoy it.