This deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives examines the importance of poetry and its diver

A practical guide to demystify the process of writing poetry, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. Poetry ma

Poetry Matters explores poetry written by women from the United States and Canada, which documents the social and political turmoil of the early twenty-first ce

The Value of Poetry shows how and why poetry matters in the contemporary world twenty-first century readers.

Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into account. --World Literatu