Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling

"Throughout her book, Kinzie is concerned to vindicate a poetry of the 'complex idea' against what she sees as a devotion to a poetics of spontaneous outpouring prevalent among contemporary American poets....Her attacks are effective precisely because they show her to have reached a deep understanding of a poem's ambitions, of the effect it imagines itself to have on a reader....Even readers unsympathetic to Kinzie's perspective will admire the clarity with which she maps the contemporary poetic landscape..."Kinzie, Mary is the author of 'Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling' with ISBN 9780226437361 and ISBN 0226437361.