{"product_id":"the-cure-of-poetry-in-mary-kinzie-9780226437361","title":"The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on \"the rhapsodic fallacy,\" confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets--Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery--who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Kinzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226437361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226437361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.03w x 0.79d","brand":"Mary Kinzie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946341073151,"sku":"9780226437361","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_893cbc22-cb56-455f-813e-3d306f0426ae.jpg?v=1681512604","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cure-of-poetry-in-mary-kinzie-9780226437361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}