The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling

by Mary Kinzie

Book Overview

The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays.

A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226437361
• ISBN13: 9780226437361
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"