What Are Poets For?
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Gerald L Bruns
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Conceptions and practices of poetry change not only from time to time and from place to place but also from poet to poet. This has never been more the case than
How Poets See the World
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Willard Spiegelman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. Th
Why Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Matthew Zapruder
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-15 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Za
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Language: en
Pages: 119
Authors: Natalie Diaz
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-04 - Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

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"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut coll
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Robert Pinsky
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-22 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangeme