About The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form and the Poetic Self
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From the Publisher: "The Body of Poetry brings together essays, reviews, and memoir by one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to exploratory poets to hip-hop writers, and her ongoing commitment to women's poetry has brought her a substantial following as a "postmodern poetess" whose critical writing embraces the past while establishing bold new traditions. This book includes essays on metrical diversity, language poetry and new formalism, the place of women writers in the canon, and meditations on poets from Emily Dickinson to Audre Lorde, all written with one aim: "to help nourish a new kind of American poetics, one that will prove increasingly open to poetry's heart.""
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