How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and Writing

by Dan Beachy-Quick

What is it to write a poem? What work do words do when placed with care and vision into the intensely charged space of poetic effort? How to Make a Circle does not seek to answer those questions, but to encounter them as fully and honestly as one can. The thread running through the essays is an ongoing investigation into poetry as an epistemological experiment, one which binds the imagination to the worldly, and trusts that creative endeavor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472039709
• ISBN13: 9780472039708
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"