{"product_id":"9781557287915","title":"Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Sappho to Heaney, a stimulating anthology of poets on poetry\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCompiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed   selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and   aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the   Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to   Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and   Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton,   Mackey, Kunitz, and Rukeyser.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into three sections. \"Musing\" concerns issues   of\u003cbr\u003einspiration, \"Making,\" issues of craft, from diction to meter to persona   and\u003cbr\u003evoice, and \"Mapping,\" the role of poetry and the poet.  Headnotes at   the\u003cbr\u003ebeginning of each selection provide background information about the   poet\u003cbr\u003eand commentary on the significance of the selection. There is also a   useful\u003cbr\u003eappendix with a listing of essays arranged according to more   specific\u003cbr\u003etopics. As the poets write in their introduction: \"This book was   intended to\u003cbr\u003edeepen readers' understanding of age-old poetic ideas while at   the same time\u003cbr\u003epointing out new directions for thinking about poetry,   juxtaposing the\u003cbr\u003efamiliar and the strange, reconfiguring old boundaries, and   shaking up\u003cbr\u003estereotypes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDeborah Brown is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire at   Manchester and author of News from the Grate. Annie Finch is director of the   Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, and   the author of a number of books, including The Body of Poetry, Calendars, Eve,   and A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women. Maxine Kumin is   one of America's most distinguished poets. Among her many awards are a Pulitzer   Prize and a Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize. She is the author of many poetry   collections, including Connecting the Dots, Up Country: Poems of New England,   and Jack and Other New Poems. She lives in Warner, New   Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060223885552,"sku":"9781557287915","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781557287915_p0.jpg?v=1763756539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781557287915","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}