{"product_id":"9780472025589","title":"The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Body of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, 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 hip-hop writers. And her ongoing commitment to women's poetry has brought Finch a substantial following as a \"postmodern poetess\" whose critical writing embraces the past while establishing bold new traditions. \u003ci\u003eThe Body of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e includes essays on metrical diversity, poetry and music, the place of women poets in the canon, and on poets Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Sara Teasdale, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Hacker, and John Peck, among other topics. In Annie Finch's own words, these essays were all written with one aim: \"to build a safe space for my own poetry. . . . [I]n the attempt, they will also have helped to nourish a new kind of American poetics, one that will prove increasingly open to poetry's heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e Poet, translator, and critic Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. She is co-editor, with Kathrine Varnes, of \u003ci\u003eAn Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEve\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCalendars\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081156477168,"sku":"9780472025589","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472025589_p0.jpg?v=1763707411","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472025589","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}