The phrase "a book composed of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the contents or structure of a book, indicating what it is made up of or what it includes.
Example: "The book composed of various essays on climate change offers a comprehensive view of the topic."
Alternatives: "a book made up of" or "a book containing".
The poems that follow make up the best set, in a book composed of groups of poems.
Meditations on the frieze lead Harbison to Peter Weiss's "immense historico-political novel 'The Aesthetics of Resistance,' " a book composed of "unwieldy blocks" of prose, not unlike the unwieldy fragments of stone that the Pergamon frieze has become over time.
Meditations on the frieze lead Harbison to Peter Weiss's "immense historico-political novel 'The Aesthetics of Resistance,' " a book composed of "unwieldy blocks" of prose, not unlike the unwieldy fragments of stone that the Pergamon frieze has become over time.
"Then & Now," a book composed of two sets of photographs — one taken in 1973 and the other in 2004 — of every lot on Hollywood Boulevard, from the 8800 block to the 4500, is a three-decades-long time capsule.
Borges's librarian recounts the discovery of a book "composed of the letters MCV perversely repeated from the first line to the last", and of another, "very much consulted in this zone... a mere labyrinth of letters, but on the next-to-the-last page, one may read O Time your pyramids".
"Then & Now," a book composed of two sets of… Late yesterday afternoon, I got a text message from a friend who was in the courtroom when the jury in the Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen… James Frey's novel about Los Angeles, "Bright Shiny Morning," has had a coastally polarizing effect.
A new book, composed of articles that appeared in his "Jay's Journal of Anomalies," will be published next year by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
The 2010 critical success of The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?, a book composed entirely of questions such as "Are your emotions pure?" and "Is there sand in your craw?", brought new attention to his writing and reignited fans of his earlier work.
The project seemed interesting — might a book composed entirely of tweets succeed as a narrative?
But when Padgett Powell was writing The Interrogative Mood ($21.99; Ecco) -- a book composed entirely of questions -- it simply hadn't occurred to him.
Roth spent four years writing "Call It Sleep," but it has the quality of a book composed in a kind of dream.
