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Arturo Vivante has a special place in American literature. Although Italian by birth, with a degree in medicine, he came to the United States in the fifties and wrote in English. Vivante offers us a feast of stories, many published in The New Yorker. We are given a taste of Italy and of himself that nourishes our humanity and spirit as few contemporary writers can. Wonder and love seem his most dominating emotions. His work takes us into the h...

In A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyri...

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The world is touched and stands forth, " writes Mary Kinzie in this book of seductive poetic experiment. In lines by turns fragmented and reflective, she shatters and reassembles such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the portrait of a notorious suicide whose children develop a secret telepathy. In one of her many powerful longer pieces, she collects glittering shards from myriad versions of the Cinderella story:Was the young g...

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Level of Words 1: The Rhapsodic Fallacy 2: Three Essays on Confession I: Pure Feeling II: Pure Pain III: Applied Poetry 3: A New Sweetness: Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop 4: The Romance of the Perceptual: The Legacy of Wallace Stevens 5: The Signatures of Things: On Howard Nemerov 6: Deeper Than Declared: On Seamus Heaney 7: "Irreference": On John Ashbery 8: The Cure of Poetry Conclusion: The Poet's Call...

Poems deal with such topics as love, family, prison, God, and death.