Favorite books about poetry
Right now I'm reading Mary Kinzie's The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling (University of Chicago, 1984), a book that I ordered after checking out a tweet-link from Michael Juster. I somehow missed that one entirely. And I'm wondering if there are other books about poetry that I may have missed and would find interesting--does anybody else have special favorites? (Or is there already a list of favorites here, somewhere in the remote reaches of the eratosphere?)
Clip from Kinzie (opening lines of the introduction): The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose is a collection of essays in which I take as given the poet's deliberate seizure of language from the generality of prose. That effort is a restorative one; the poet aims to restore to poetry the universality and aboriginality that over time have mistakenly been reassigned to prose. Poetry is the preconditional state of language, not its late and shiftless offspring.
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