Looks at examples of poetry ranging from medieval to modern, discusses style and mode, and provides exercises for beginning and advanced writers

Product Description: In this exceptional new collection, acclaimed poet Mary Kinzie opens her attention to the landscapes of the earth. Her poems of richly varied line lengths develop phrases at the syncopated pace of the observing mind: “Slag and synthesis and traveling fire / so many ways the groundwaves of distortion / pulse / through bedrock traffic and the carbon chain” she writes in the opening poem, “The Water-brooks...read more

Product Description: "The world is touched and stands forth," writes Mary Kinzie in this book of seductive poetic experiment. In lines by turns fragmented and reflective, she shatters and reassembles such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the portrait of a notorious suicide whose children develop a secret telepathy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In her latest critically acclaimed book, characterized by moral intensity and a serious sense of adventure, the poet looks at the world through surprising angles, realized in a wide variety of formal experimentation. Reprint.

A rich collection of essays and reviews, ranging from Adrienne Rich to Charles Wright

Product Description: Book by Kinzie, Mary

Product Description: The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs...read more

A collection of poems about the author's daughter

Poems deal with such topics as love, family, prison, God, and death

Photographs, documents, and the anecdotes of editors combine to chronicle the development of America's small literary magazines including Partisan Review, Chicago Review, Anvil, Paris Review, and Kayak