[New-Poetry] Essays on Poetry by Ralph Mills, Jr.

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August 2003
David Harris
poetry
Essays on Poetry by Ralph Mills, Jr.
How much do you love poetry? How deeply do you believe that to understand the poem, you need to understand the poet? If you answer "Not much" to either of these questions, then this book of essays is probably not for you. However, if you are interested in how contemporary American poetry is influenced by the lives of contemporary American poets, this is a detailed, well-informed set of analyses by one of the greatest recent critics of poetry. 


As Michael Anania points out in his introduction to the volume, Mills's essays have the sense of "reading turned outward" -- the essays chronicle Mills's reading and understanding of poetry rather than pretending to be an "official" judgment delivered from on high. With this approach, readers of this volume will find they can compare their readings of the criticized poets to those of Mills. 



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